If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.

You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way too competitive. We were seven or eight years old, and I had a very stern conversation with my relay team-mates about how crucial it was for us to win.

I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.