I used to be really fussy, I just used to eat chicken or steak. I didn't really eat fish, but I eat a lot of it now.

It's a goal to get myself in the squad for the World Cup.

Everton means the world to me.

We all go through difficult spells.

I feel I'm a player who entertains and gets people on the edge of their seats, as well as trying to be a game-changer who can win a game for the team.

You can take a bit of criticism from your manager now and then, but you have to react to it which I have done.

Chelsea is a massive club, you aim to win the Premier League or are challenging for trophies with the aim to win everything.

It was a big decision to leave Everton and it took me a lot of time to think over.

I'm Ross Barkley and I've got to create a better version of the player I am and show what I can do, not try to be like someone else. That's part of what I hope I can achieve here, to make people aware of who I am as a player and show everyone what I can do.

Bad days don't always stay.

Every manager has their own way of approaching games.

If things aren't going well there's always going to be pressure that comes with it.

It's all about success, winning trophies.

I want to get to a level where I am regarded as one of the best and coming to a club like Chelsea gives me the right platform to improve.

I want to be regarded as a world-class midfielder.

I have got to a level where I feel I needed to make the jump to Chelsea and push myself and get myself to a better level and playing with world-class players here is only going to help.

We can all improve.

We have to improve at club level - and at the international level, there is a lot of room for improvement.

I never thought I would not play for my country.

I'm a striker. I feel I can have my greatest impact there because I'm free to roam around the pitch, take players on, have shots and create chances.

You have to go through bad days to get to the great days you have in your career.

I believe in myself and I know what I can do.

I just focus on getting better every day, putting things right in training and then hopefully what I'm doing right in training I'm doing to show in games as well.

I played a lot of games at a young age and I feel like I'm an older player in the side now. I communicate a lot more on the pitch and in the training room now.

They've got a good atmosphere and it's always a tough game at the Stadium of Light.

To be given a fresh start at a new club like Chelsea, it's unbelievable for me.

You want to be playing off the cuff sometimes to take chances and make something happen.

You don't want to play in your shell.

As a player you can't be too worried if you take a risk and whether it's not going to come off.

It's about getting the right balance and knowing on the pitch when is the right time to take risks.

When you first come back from a long-term injury, you're just trying to get your body in order and trying to get back into the training and match routine.

In my living room I always used to tell my mum 'one day I'll score for Everton' and when that happened it was unbelievable for me.

At Chelsea I knew I'd improve a lot quicker around better players, world-class players.

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

When it comes to explaining the phenomenon of right-wing populism, liberals are likely to argue both that the populist era has exposed a darkness always present at the heart of conservative politics and that a toxic, post-truth new-media ecosystem has greased the skids for President Trump, Brexit and the rest.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.

America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.

I had just been sort of raised and formed in a general Christian context, and it seemed to my teenage self that I found the argument for Catholicism very compelling. To the extent that there was a personal driving force, it was more on the intellectual side of things than the mystical or deeply personal. When I converted, I thought it was true.

When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over fantasy novels was (if painful memory serves) a super-nerdy thing to do.

Every elite seeks its own perpetuation, of course, but that project is uniquely difficult in a society that's formally democratic and egalitarian and colorblind.

I think it was a good and necessary thing that the American upper class diversified, and that more African-Americans and Jews and Catholics (like myself) and women now share privileges and powers once reserved for Protestant white men.

In the end the recrudescence of racism on the right is conservatism's problem to solve, and it has to be solved independently of whatever liberals and leftists happen to be saying. But the task of solving it still gets a little harder with every nonsense charge or bad-faith accusation.

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the previous annum's worth of columns.

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

Even Warren Buffet is allowed to have an awful year from time to time.

Great preschools are no easier to build than great high schools, and if you think your kids might be better off in the care of a parent or with some extended family member, then a system designed around a dual-income plus day care norm will likewise feel like a burden, or a trap.

If we had a populist president who didn't alienate so many persuadable voters, who took full advantage of a strong economy, and who had the political cunning displayed by Modi or Benjamin Netanyahu or Viktor Orban, the liberal belief in a hidden left-of-center mandate might be exposed as a fond delusion.