"Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore."

"You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you."

"I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are."

"You know I used to listen to music a lot more."

"I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks."

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."

"I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning."

"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'"