“Perfection is almost an illness with me, but sometimes I have moments where everything is absolutely clear and you can feel, rather than think.”

What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.

I know one day I’ll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window’s gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow – I would not care. I feel like I’ve lived, I feel like I’ve had a great life.

Want girls to let you put your fingers in certain places? Get a manicure.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

Oh my God, so many young girls now look like whores!

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.

I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.

I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.

Time and silence are the most luxurious things today.

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.

Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.

In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?

I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that.

I don’t want expensive gifts; I don’t want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that’s always been my mindset.

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

I used to have the craziest fear of losing teeth. I would have nightmares about that all the time. But it’s the craziest thing, because I feel like that’s one of the easiest things to fix. You just get veneers or something.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

I grew up at this incredibly odd intersection in Los Angeles, where it felt like the black ‘hood met black elegance met white gentrification met Latin culture met wetlands.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.