QUOTES

Tillakaratne Dilshan is innovative and scores quickly, while Upul Tharanga is neat and well organised - and left handed.

I played in Sri Lanka, so I know how hard it is to come here and win. The weather is baking hot and the conditions are alien to English cricketers.

Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.

There are times when it's difficult to see your wife and her ex-husband sitting next to each other chatting away.

It's all you hear on a cricket field - 'Knock his head off, knock his head off.' Cricket has gone too far. It shouldn't be posturing, abusing.

Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.

My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life.

Anybody can have a dip in form.

I was a professional cricketer from 16.

Any decent coach can make more than enough money just doing three or four T20 leagues.

When you are captain at the same time, that's when it gets difficult and when your own game starts to decay because you have other worries and pressures.

Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.

In any international sporting career an opportunity comes along that you have to grab. Mine came at Old Trafford in 1985 when I was recalled to the England team to face Australia. It was a huge chance to prove I belonged in the Test side but I failed to take it.

In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.

We don't cover too many draws in Test cricket and its great: it means the cricket is more interesting, more exciting.

Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.

It takes very little effort to make someone happy.

With new fast bowlers on the international circuit few and far between, it's always good to see someone new coming through.

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.

My dad was a keen cricketer - he played at school and club level - but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.

I spend too much time away from home. I love travelling, but we can be away for as much as four months during the winter.

It is a pleasure for me when 'Rise,' which many people loved, was covered by a famous group like IZ'ONE.

There's benefits of having established artists on the record, Liam Payne on 'Polaroid' for example. If you look at that song you have Lennon Stella, who's an up-and-coming artist, so there's a balance on there because I still want people to focus on the song just as much as Liam being an amazing superstar.

A turntable is the classic DJ's weapon for playing vinyl, but the mixer is the device that actually allows you to blend multiple tracks together to create a mix.

I'm a massive Justin Bieber fan. You've got be able to admit that.

When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.

I always strive to make my music unique.

The adrenaline is like nothing else. You might be tired or whatever else, but when you get on that stage and see people reacting there's nothing like it. It's a bit god-like - that feeling that nothing can feel better.

I stay up night after night looking at new software, seeing new trends, what music's happening you know you've just got stay constantly connected and that's just something that I do and I think is really important.