I used to fast during Ramadan because I admired the people fasting around me. What made me convert was that I had that certainty that Islam was for me. I felt this relationship with God, and that enlightened my life. I had that conviction in my heart that that was my religion.

When I reflect on my career I have no regrets.

Shanghai is Asia's New York.

At some point we must stop being paranoid and believing that we are all at war.

I did very little at Real Madrid. I would have liked to do much more but I didn't get the chance.

It is always good to win a game.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.