I managed just five Tests between 2004 and 2006.

I don't agree with the theory that removing grass and pace from the pitch nullifies Mitchell Johnson.

There is something special about the early stages of an Ashes Test. There is this unique buzz.

It is scary when bowling how hard batsmen hit it now.

I'm always trying to improve whether by being more consistent, accurate, fitter or able to bowl longer spells.

I remember my first meeting with Alastair Cook clearly. The entire Lancashire side, some of them pretty mild-mannered, really laid into him. He'd just scored a double-hundred for Essex against Australia in a warm-up match before the 2005 Ashes. For some reason, we all assumed he must be really arrogant.

I don't actually have a regular end I bowl from at Old Trafford.

Test cricket tests your ability as a cricketer but also bring out your true character.

A lot is made of the pink ball. But it is the same really. A good ball is a good ball, regardless of the colour. You might want to bowl a touch fuller with the pink ball when it is nipping around but generally a pink kookaburra behaves the same as a red kookaburra.

For me, what works is keeping training short but with high intensity and then recovering well. Physio, massage, icing, things like that.

Instinctively I know the difference between general pain from bowling, and pain caused by a specific problem.

There's a fiercely competitive rivalry between myself and Virat Kohli - but also enormous mutual respect.

A coach can help only so much. Out on the field you need a partner.

The time to think about personal achievement is at the end of your career.

Growing up, my education about Test cricket came from dad's video of the 1981 Ashes series - and Ian Botham's incredible match at Headingley.

I play a bit of golf, off a 12 handicap.

I am quite stingy when it comes to giving runs away.

I remember playing a Twenty20 game in Australia in 2007 and Matthew Hayden smacked one back at me. My head goes down as I follow through and as I looked up I just saw this white flash pass about an inch from the side of my head. If it had been a touch straighter I would not have had time to react and who knows what could have happened.

Lord's is such a special place and to get my first and now my 500th wickets here is something that will live with me for a long time.

For a fast bowler, not much stress goes through my body.

Part of the reason I fell in love with cricket was watching fast bowlers. They provide a sense of theatre with dramatic, ferocious spells and that applies as much in one-day cricket as in Tests.

I've just enjoyed playing for England - it's an amazing job.

Milestones have never really meant a lot. They probably will mean more when I've finished playing and actually reflect on what I have achieved.

What I try to do is improve as much as I can so I can be the best bowler I possibly can.