I know that nobody will be satisfied with anything less than coming home with the World Cup.

It's special - when you start playing, you are aware of names like Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie; you have seen them playing and know what great players they are. So it's fantastic to have a chance to line up with them. I'm really pleased with how that understanding has started off.

Losing one final, that happens, but when it happens three times in a row, that is something else entirely.

I have a lot of very happy memories of the Olympic Games, and the final against Nigeria and the goal mean an awful lot to me.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

I've come from a grounded family and had a good upbringing.