"I studied economics with some teachers from ESADE. It's a really good school here in Spain. They helped me to understand a little about numbers, stats, economics, etc."

"I think when people say Madrid are playing well and Barca are not and vice-versa, or when one wins the Champions League, it's better than the other, I don't think that makes sense. Everyone takes their own path."

"Completely, in the end, being at a club like FC Barcelona who must win titles, you have to stay motivated, and often times, using your head is more important than using your body."

"We try to study our rivals so we know where to improve."

"There are stages in life in which you have to bring things to a close because of motivation."

"I would prefer to keep my distance a bit from the cameras. I want to keep a private life."

"In England, there are big games but nothing like the Clasico. Manchester United versus Liverpool is a really great match, probably the best over there. But Barcelona-Madrid is different to any other game in the world."

"I can't stand comparisons to the past. It doesn't matter what we did in previous seasons."

"I am and feel Catalan."

"The rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona is very big."

"We have to enjoy ourselves and go for every trophy we can."

"Evolution is all about looking forward."

"When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident."

"With VAR, the refereeing errors will be reduced, and therefore, we'll all be on equal terms. It will take a lot of the responsibility from the referees on vital decisions, like penalties and goals, and they will make far fewer mistakes."

"I moved to Manchester United when I was a 17-year-old kid. Nemanja Vidic was five years older than me and Rio Ferdinand nearly nine years, and at the time, they were the best central defenders in the world. They never had a bad game."

"I learned so much during my time at United. Sharing a dressing room with Paul Scholes, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy, and Ryan Giggs at such a young age was an amazing experience. I didn't play as much as I would have liked, but it was a master's degree in development both as a player and a person."

"If you stop now and start to realise what you have achieved, then you start to relax, and you start to lose. I don't think about everything I have achieved. I will do it when I retire because then I will have a lot of days to remember."

"It's true that sometimes we have paparazzi or some kind of photographers following us, but you have to live normal. I mean, if you try to not go to the supermarket or not go to the cinema, you won't live properly, and you won't enjoy living. We are trying to be as normal as we can."

"You try to do the best for your club, and you also create relationships and friendships - with Neymar, my relationship is really strong, even though it really hurt the club when he left. As a friend, I could understand his decision and why he wanted to go to Paris. I tried to be fair to him no matter what."

"Business is another kind of world that I don't think is as passionate. It is not the pressure to perform as you have in football. It is more about strategy, skill, about how you deal with all the information you have. Some of the things from football I can bring to business, and some things from business I can bring to football."

"When I can talk about my teammates who help make me a better player, or even the coach who gave me the self-confidence to continue being who I am, these are fundamental people who have had an influence throughout my life and my professional career, and I'm very thankful to them, and they know it."

"I always try to say what I'm thinking, what I'm feeling, and without fear of what others will say or think, and that's how I've always lived. Sometimes, this has ended up hurting me, and other times, it has helped me, but I think you can never forget who you are, and I've always been myself, and that one of the things I'm most proud of."

"I think that every day, more and more people are conscious of what Barca is, that Barca is a global brand, and you can go anywhere in the world and see a child wearing a Barca shirt, and that means a lot: not just that people like Barca but that they also like the colours and even buy the shirt."

"Luis Enrique has a clear idea, and the team has understood it perfectly. He asks us to press high up the pitch, to counter quickly when the opposition attacks and try to maximise the space between the lines with the speed we have."

"I always said that Messi has some talent that no one has. I mean, he has the ball and his speed controlling the ball. The ball doesn't go two metres far from his foot; it's always there. It's impossible to catch him. This talent I didn't see from anyone."

"I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?"

"It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)"

"There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you..."

"I feel like theres so many people out there who have the kids in the palm of their hand, listening but there are so few people saying something"

"I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer."

"Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself."

"You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music."

"The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress."

"There's such a lack of sex in music."

"We’ve always been fighters. There will always be something to fight against. So we’ll always fight, underdogs or not. If you put a wall in front of us, we don’t look to go round it. We just bust straight through."

"Singing songs that make you slit your wrists"

"Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn’t."

"The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour."

"It is not a band. It is an idea."

"I'd enjoy it if a guy grabbed my ass. I guess it all depends on how he grabbed it, too."

"Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness."

"Stay beautiful, keep it ugly"

"Can I be your only hope? Because your the only hope for me."

"When you are kissing a guy with a beard, it's different."

"Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?"

"All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope."

"The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored as hell."

"I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist."

"Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!"

"It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy."