I know how to read a spreadsheet, I know what I'm worth so I can go into meetings and say, 'I get paid that much, thank you.'

I can play poker when I have to and I think it has made me a better fighter.

It is an individual sport and you don't get many opportunities to overturn dodgy decisions.

I'm a realist and I'm not going to shy away from being knocked out.

That's the reality of boxing - it can be over in a flash.

Boxing's a funny business and sometimes different fights come along at different times.

Sometimes when you're not getting what you want in this game you have to shout a bit and throw a bit of a tantrum.

You can't judge a fighter by their worst performance.

I didn't fool myself into thinking I was world class just because I'd beaten James DeGale.

My career before I was main event I was always trying to steal the show and I feel I have a style that can be endearing to the boxing public. It's a style that allows me to box how I want to box.

I don't care what people think anymore. I don't think I've got anything to prove.

I want to make my wife proud, I want to make my dad proud.

If people want to say nasty things that's a good thing in a way because it means people will underestimate me come fight night.

I've been over to Germany, it is nice to box.

In any other sport an easier route to the final is your best route - but in this sport it isn't.

Once I'm world Champion we can think about what fights are fun rather than fights that need to take place.

There are plenty of massive fights out there for me, I know that, but the goals always going to become world champion.

It's hard to win people's minds over. The only way to change their minds is to perform.

I've been on the other end of sticky decisions, have been the 'B' side, but I never go in there thinking, 'Is this going to go against me?'

I know I am more than capable of beating Carl Froch.

I'm sure I'm going to have a long and successful career.

Carl Froch never really does too well away from home and he is very settled and comfortable in Nottingham.

I've good memories of fighting at the Echo Arena. It's been a happy hunting ground for me in the past.

Being champion, there's a different mindset.

You have to ride your luck a bit, you have to take opportunities when they come.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think they thought as I was bisexual, there was no need to. But it's amazing how much more complicated it became because I didn't come out in the early days. I often wonder if my career would have taken a different path if I had.

Not many people are really that meticulous with what they do, I suppose, but I'm just a control freak and terribly afraid of failure or regret. I work very hard on these things.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.

I think the media is a real demon.

I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.