The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Life's a rollercoaster. You're up one minute; you're down one minute. But who doesn't like rollercoasters?
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft.
You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.
Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride.
What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.
I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.
Life is an emotional rollercoaster. It really is.
As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit of despair.
I had many ups and downs at Atletico, achieving the best and the worst.
But I'll never forget my trip to Las Vegas. I'm a huge rollercoaster fan and we did the one at the Stratosphere, which curls around the hotel, and there's one that dips out from the roof then comes back in. That was intense.
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.
T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You've got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don't go for many. You have to take it as it comes.
It's feast or famine in showbiz.
Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.
I'm such an emotional performer, and my head is always like a rollercoaster, so if I'm in a good place and feeling grateful, that's when I notice that my shows come across as a lot more positive.
I've had the big ups and the big downs.
If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.
I had just broke in and everything was going so well, to have it all ripped away like that is not nice. That's part of football, and that stuff happens all the time. You go from the highest of highs, and then it's taken away and you're from there to rock bottom.
In showbiz one minute you're up there making thousands of people laugh, next minute you're picking up toffees, you know it's real life.
There is always something happening at Schalke. I love the extremes. When we have bad runs, the atmosphere is really bad and you feel that. But you know, when you are on a good run again, it just tops everything - then it is just super!
The highs and lows of Vitor Belfort, I would not want to be that guy. Be on top of the world getting all these 'knockouts of the night' and all these awards of the year and then all of a sudden get shunned into the shadows. He leads a shady life, and it seems like karma might be coming back.
True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
It hasn't always been a Premier League ride for Crystal Palace supporters. They're there to support us through the hard times.
