“So we eradicate the ‘dementors’, encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here.”

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.

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

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.

You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players.

For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish.

Not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world

But things move on and by the time you’ve plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening, a deep wordless listening.

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.