Playing for South Africa is an absolute honour, and I don't feel like I need to relax. Every game I take more than seriously.

It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.

I can't see myself playing anywhere else in the world. You don't know how much I want to play international cricket for South Africa.

When I go to bed after playing a Test match, I want to feel that I gave 100%.

I have a lot of respect, whatever format I play.

I've been playing cricket for quite a long time all over the world, and all the situations I have been in have given me confidence.

I want to be the guy the captain can trust.

I don't bowl for personal numbers.

Fifty overs is a long time. It's a good challenge, and you have enough time to show your skills.

In T20, there's a time shortage because you've got four overs. In one-day cricket, you relax, and the game goes long, and you only win the game in the last 10 or 15 overs.

I have been bowling at the death sometimes. You need to focus. You know if you miss your target, you will go for a boundary, but it's also good because it makes you a really good bowler. You practise hard, and you try to bowl in one area most of the time.

I never look to contain. I always try and take wickets.

Any spinner can change the game. It's been proven in T20 cricket.

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it's going to be really hard to come back.

For me, the most important thing is that the team should do well.

If you look at me outside the cricket ground, I am a simple, normal guy, like everyone else. But on the field, that passion flows because I have been through a lot of tough times and have lost many special people.

I will do what my team wants me to do and justify my place in the side.

I don't think it is difficult to balance professional sports with practising your faith. It is very easy if you follow the right path.

I try not to miss my prayers and the 30 fasts in Ramazan, but even if I do miss them due to my cricket, I make up for them later on.

If I get a wicket, I just want to show people that how big that is for me.

If you go for wickets all the time, then you will go for runs as well because you will have to flight the ball and invite the batsmen to hit you.

There are not too many leg-spinners in the world, and if you look closely, Mishra bhai will stand out as one of the best.

One must always love passionately.

I just like to enjoy my cricket.

Moving to South Africa and trying to make a mark as a cricketer and then make it to the international team hasn't been easy. This is why I want to enjoy every moment of it.

All I do is work hard. Try and work on my bowling and keep improving every day. That's the key to success at the international level and in tournaments like the IPL.

I really can't pinpoint why I celebrate the way I do. I just love it when I pick a wicket, and it comes naturally to me to express my joy in the manner that I do.

The best players of the world play in the IPL, and to bowl to them in T20 cricket isn't easy.

The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.

To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for.

Listening to 'Songs in the Key of Life' always puts me in a good mood.

You need to take care of you and fortify yourself and then move out to take care of others.

Why not be a person who is loving towards humankind as a whole and people as individuals?

What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.

It's important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody's is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that's the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door.

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder.

Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state.

Between '06 and '09, I dealt with pain by eating. And I was like, 'Oh, crap, eating makes you gain weight!'

I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore.

If we can just focus our attention where it matters, we can effect change.

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

Just like the air you breathe or the water you drink, music shapes you. The trouble is, most people don't use it to spread love and healing. But I think music can make a social contribution if you're responsible with it.

If I don't have the right clothes, I feel weird walking out; I don't feel comfortable in what I have on. I have different colors that I want to wear on different days because it makes me feel different.

Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.