I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!

People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

Real Madrid are one of the main teams in Europe. They are a team which has won the Champions League the most times, a very good team, and known throughout the whole world as well.

For me, the Premier League is the best tournament in the world. It's the hardest; you need to be 100 per cent to play every game.

In my country, we say that football is like a huge plate of food. Well, I want to eat everything because I want to win every trophy I can for City.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

I listen to the Manchester news on local radio. It has helped me learn English. I have it on when I am driving to training in the morning.

Pellegrini is always calm; if you have problems, he will try to resolve it.

I like to hear BBC Manchester about the news and to learn English and the Manchester accent.

We know the FA Cup is important for the team and fans.

I hope I will be able to repay City for what they have done for me.

Occasionally, when I come off during a game, I get a little bit angry. But it's only because I want to play in every game and every minute to help my team-mates.

It is always good when you play away because the fans support their team, and it gives you more motivation to play well.

Sometimes people mistake some things regarding that, thinking just one player would make up for the needs of an entire club.

I smile because I am a happy guy.

My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and that was just how I liked it.

When you play on bad surfaces, you have to show your character and keep your concentration for the whole 90 minutes.

I personally like Kolarov. He is one of the funniest players I have played with. Every day, he has something new, and he is a funny guy!

I just love to play and always want to be involved.

The titles are important forever; it doesn't matter when you win. They keep you motivated to win the Premier League and the Champions League.

Willian is fantastic. It was good to be with him in Ukraine, where we won several titles together.

I came to England because I thought it would help me to get back in the Brazilian national team.

My body works best when I'm playing all the time, so when I work more and I play more, I feel better.

After I signed for Man City, the people back home in Brazil congratulated me for signing for one of the top teams.

If I only wanted money and a comfortable life, I would have stayed in Ukraine.

I was in Donetsk for eight years. I was happy there. I won six titles. I knew everyone, and I was a big part of the club.

City have been working throughout the years to mount competitive teams and pursue titles.

The City project is much more than about signing a single player with a strong name, that would eventually cost a lot more.

For me, it is the trophies that are important, not the goals.

When you are a father, when you talk to your son or your daughter for the first time, they don't understand you. Of course, you have patience, and you keep talking to them, and eventually they do understand.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

In my country, they used to call players who play in my position a defensive midfielder, but it is not defensive.