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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.