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I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.

I love basketball! When I'm flying, and I have on sweats, a hat, and sneakers, people always assume that I'm a high school kid going to an away game. And I always say no, I'm a fan of the game.

The reason I get so excited about 'Master of None' is because it's showing people of color as regular people.

The '80s really were - talk about no rules. People just did whatever they wanted; they could look however they wanted. There was just a lot of bigness and brightness.

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

Just 'cause something's popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.

I was brought up never to expect people to say no to me, because if I said I wanted to do something, then I was pushed forward and given as many resources as possible to do it by my family.

I am exceptionally patriotic - I've been brought up that way - so I love representing my country and somehow, I've just managed to convince other people I'm alright at football along the way!

I've always said fashion is less about what people think I should be wearing, and more about expressing myself and how I feel.

You know I want to be available to people and accessible, I want to engage but I don't know anybody who can do that all the time, all that sort of energy.

I think there's a consideration with lots of things where if you listen well enough and you speak to people then most of the time you will form your own view and your own opinion, and if you are brave enough to say it out loud then you will help people.

Obviously I'd love football to always be the thing I'm known for, but also I want people to remember me as someone who hopefully used my platform for change.

I was at the petrol station with my mum in the car. She went to pay for fuel and this guy taps on the window and I was like, either he's telling me off for being on my phone or he recognised me and people wait outside toilets to see you.

I don't want people to perceive me in the wrong way but I am thick-skinned enough to know I am taking care of my football and my performance.

At 'The West Wing,' I cast newscasters, and when you put out a casting call for actors, half of the people who come in are real local L.A. newscasters. Each time, I ended up hiring one of them, because they're better at it. Big surprise! A newscaster is better at playing a newscaster than an actor is.

There are people who hate me, there are people who like me, and they're both right. I think people hate me for the right reasons, which is my politics and what they discern to be my personal attitudes.

I have nothing against change or evolution, and I'm not one of those people who wants the city to be what it was 40 years ago or whatever, because that's not what New York is, really.

When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and things like that.

When I first learned guitar - when I was 14 or 15 - I had an older cousin who showed me some stuff. And he was into all these tunings. He was showing me tunings that people like David Crosby or Neil Young used - like dropped D and open D tunings.

We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt very close to the people at the label after all this time or that they understood what we were trying to do. I don't have any regrets, because at the time we signed with Geffen, it was the right thing to do.