Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.
If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.
When I have a day off, I will have a day off.
Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.
I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.
It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.
I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.
Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.
If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.
But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living
I'm not keen on making predictions.
