I know what it means to play for a big club. Big clubs, it's like that: if you win, everything is good. If you lose, it's your fault, especially defenders and goalkeepers.

Strikers never lose games... we have to be honest and say that.

It's never easy to play against City.

My future is about God.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

I'm always happy to do my best to help the coach and the club.

I forgive everyone in my life.

I want just to show people good things - football is beautiful when you play games like that.

I'm working hard since the beginning of my career.

I think I tried to improve as a person, as a brother, as a son, as a friend every day.

Sometimes when the strikers don't score, the pressure starts on them. They love to score goals.

I had the opportunity to play in many fantastic squads. I won with great teams but also lost with great teams.

I am delighted to be joining a big English club. I know very well the quality that Chelsea has.

I'm a lucky guy because I always play for a big club, and big clubs always try to win titles, and I love that.

If you're not happy doing something, you have to change.

As long as I am on the field, I am happy.

I am most comfortable in the centre but can play on the side, also.

The best league in the world is the Premier League, so I am so happy to be here playing with and against big players.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

Negativity is the enemy of creativity.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.

I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

I don't paint the town red. But when I do go out, people always want to touch my hair. It happens every time.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.