Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

It shows ‚us vs. them‘, and I’m on the ‚us‘ side.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.