Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

I'm trouble, but in a good way.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

That's when it becomes a business. When you've been public a long time, when it's a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.