“It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that.”

I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that’s for sure.

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

Finishing fifth in the Premier League with a great team was a fine effort and we also got to the quarterfinals of the Europa League and nearly got past a Benfica side that went to the final.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now.

If you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.

It’s probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success.

Until that issue is addressed, no Premier League team wants to be in the Europa League. That’s the reality, even if some don’t want to admit it.

We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs.

It’s important that top clubs don’t lose sight of the fact that it’s the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

If you’ve seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term ‘dementors’ – people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy.

I didn’t listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn’t let it enter my brain.

You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said.

I would not want to be the Europa League in the current format, that’s for sure.

Touring is a rough thing. You don’t have any time to look around or stop and think if what you’re doing is making you happy.

It’s rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they’re all invested in what you’re doing.

I’ve been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn’t ever give myself the label ‘bisexual,’ but bi-curious? Yea.

You have a career, the reason why we’re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

It’s something I’ve always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours’ eyes.

Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?

I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.