Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.

Every person is different and unique. I am a female. I'm Indian. I'm 4'11"". People should never be defined by what they look like and sort of these demographical parts about them, but the most important thing is the work you do, so females are just as capable as doing that as males, and the same thing with any other person out there.

Sometimes females feel like they should act like men, but they should really just be themselves.

It's about knowing yourself and what you're good at. Females, males - anyone can be anything they want to be.

As a striker, your job is mostly to forget. When you have someone like Vidic marking you, and it's misery for 89 minutes, all you have to do is forget everything. Forget the 89 minutes. Because in the 90th minute, you might finally get your chance. I have been pretty good at this in my career.

If you can have a career as a footballer for 13 years then you're really lucky, but there will probably be plenty of supporters up and down the country saying that I wasn't a top player, to put it kindly. That's for sure.

The blueprint, for me, was having an understanding of self because this business will try to make you somebody other than yourself or make you change with the times. A lot of times, people will want you to do everything for free, work for free, to be down to do this after you paid your dues.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.