I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
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.
Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.
There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.
I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.
I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.