The day you are content, you will stop growing.

I have gained experience over the years, but learning will keep happening in every game.

There's no point sulking for what has happened in the past.

I was on the wheelchair for six months and lost all hope of returning to the field. I thought my career was over, but my brother kept on encouraging me. 'All that you need to do is to be resolute to return to the field,' he said. These words turned out to be magical.

Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

There's no one aspect of my life that is more hidden than others. I mean, everything is pretty much an open book in every regard: relationships, personal, business, music, family, problems, demons, everything is well documented.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.