"No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think."

"I just want people to see me as a hard-working footballer and someone who is passionate about the game."

"As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best."

"When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly."

"With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther."

"It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated."

"That was my way of getting through difficult times of low confidence - hard work."

"Being hardworking is the best thing you can show children."

"I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing."

"I would never complain about the position I'm in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband."

"I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did."

"I hope I become a better player day after day. This is one of my goals. I want to improve in every situation, but when you are playing along with top figures, it is a quality bonus and a bigger effort. Besides, the Spanish Liga also gives you the chance to progress and improve."

"You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand."

"I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you."

"I'm a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I'm sure it has hindered me at times as well, but not too many times. I know that if I set my mind to do something, even if people are saying I can't do it, I will achieve it."

"It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough."

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray."

"Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on."

"Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head."

"People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them."

"On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town."

"Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create."

"I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that."

"I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It's getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes."

"It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix."

"People use irony as a defense mechanism."

"You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car."

"To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware."

"I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit."

"I don't like begging money from producers."

"I resent the implication that I'm less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works."

"My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food."

"I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn."

"If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it."

"Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots."

"Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then."

"PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows."

"You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends."

"That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you."

"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter."

"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll."

"Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?"

"I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know."

"There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking."

"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."

"Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style."

"The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day."

"I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people."

"Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored."