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Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

But I hope that you walk around the corner and you get very surprised.