I'm a goof. C'mon, everyone knows that.

If you have a kid that loves basketball - that eats, sleeps, drinks, and thinks basketball, and all he knows is basketball - and he gets hurt, and he's your franchise player, you need to hold him back from himself.

Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.

I'm my own man.

When I went through my life, I was like, 'I sit around and play video games all day. Nobody wants to hear about this.'

I always have something going on.

I check out my MySpace. I'll go on sites to see what's funny on YouTube.

Some people would rather not go to arenas; they'd rather just sit at home and watch the game at home or play on the computer.

I really don't want to feel like an adult.

You don't want to be too uptight about anything. Especially your job.

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I'm the opposite. I don't take any crap.

I was an only child.

At the end of the day, you have 82 games. You're going to win some division games, and you're going to lose some division games.

If you're having a bad day, or you're having a bad career, go to Manila. They'll bring your spirits up.

I got three 'Tiger Woods' games for my Xbox just in case one gets scratched.

My best moment in the league came when I scored my first bucket.

When I was little, I looked in the mirror and held the Bible in my hand - that's how I talked to God. I never just asked for stuff. The way I saw it, if you give Him something, you get something.

I was in honors classes in high school. I'd get an A on every test, but I had a 1.9 grade point average. The teacher would say, 'You didn't do your homework.' I'd say, 'But isn't the homework supposed to be the lead-up to the test?'

You can't start anything and not trust nobody. You trust everybody until they do something wrong.

I always try to find something funny in any situation.

Basketball is basketball. I don't think people realize that. No matter what city, overseas, D-league, park league - I just want to play.

I'm mentally strong.

I have the mind-set that a guard can't stick me. So I watch the bigs and see how they like to play. If you're a shot blocker, then I jump into you. If you take charges, then I pull up for the midrange.

I'm a scorer. I score in volumes.

I'm a shooter. You don't lose your shooting touch.

Chauncey Billups is really not a scoring guard.

Fans love me because I connect with them. No other superstar can do that.

People call me all kinds of things, I guess, because I'm a little different. I'm never what they expect.

I don't want to get married unless they change the marriage laws. You should have to sign a marriage contract for no more than five years, with an option to opt out.

My mother was a housewife. My father worked in the agriculture business, but they were very encouraging about everything. When I said I wanted to do art, they were very supportive.

I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.

It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.

With couture, it means I get to show fall in July with delivery in September. My clients will be getting their pieces in season.

Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.

I don't believe in a recipe for success. You have to work hard; you may not always get it right - you have to bounce back from situations, and you have to be really focused and determined. It's important to have fun as well. Work shouldn't be a torture.

If you've invested money in buying a piece, you don't want it to just disintegrate. We all have that first wash anxiety, when that great t-shirt you've just bought shrinks away to nothing.

There are some great skinny girls, but it's about characters, isn't it? That's what I find attractive. People who've had interesting lives and tell you something that you don't know or are really good fun.

I don't like acres of faceless girls walking.

I'll spend a couple of days in Paris, a couple back in London, some time at the factory in Italy... I like travelling, but it can be a struggle to get home for weekends.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.

I liked the fact DAKS was an unknown quantity. It's more like Gucci before Tom Ford got there. There's a lot you can do.

People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

Pretty much hated school. I never really found my footing. I just didn't like lessons.

We design for a whole range of ages and body types, and we always have done. What's great about us is that the common thing that they all like is an accessible eccentricity of an accessible flamboyance, and I think the super thing about that, it isn't age-specific: you're not only dressing 25-year-olds; we're dressing women from 25 to 65+.

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

I like women to have life, personalities. Women who would perhaps cause some trouble on a night out and have a lot to say for themselves.

Rooney Mara is someone I'd like to dress; we've not worked with her before and she certainly has very interesting personal style.