For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

When you're young, you want to live fast, but you definitely don't want to die young. At the same time, you want to do things in slow, progressive manner that will benefit you in the future. Don't jump into things.

I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.

Either you face the challenges in life head on or back out. And I am not someone to back out from challenges.

I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.

God bless the universe, God bless Japanese, Chinese, Indians, all of them, and let's have peace.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.