My girlfriend comes from a farming background and I spend a lot of time at her farm doing farming stuff. When you're pulling lambs out, or weighing them or worming them or doing whatever you do to sheep you're not thinking about Brett Lee.
Playing for England is such a huge honour - it should always remain that.
I miss being the focal point of the team - the guy everyone looks to for decisions. And guidance.
Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.
The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you miss your moment in an orchestra, there is no forgiving.
Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.
If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.
In international cricket you have to thrive on the big stage, you have to deal with the media and the pressure.
Physically and mentally, it's quite hard. But I'm playing cricket for England. It's what I dream about doing.
From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn't bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.
Just because you're made England captain, it doesn't mean that you suddenly know everything about captaincy.
All I ever wanted to do was play cricket for England and be successful.
Franchise cricket is here to stay because of the money.
As cricketers we're judged on the average we have from being a 21-year-old who's just come into international cricket to the day you retire.
I was never going to be the best player the world has ever seen but one thing I can be proud of is that I genuinely believe I have become the best player that I could have become.
Learning on the job as England captain is hard.
Everyone has technical flaws - no matter how many runs you score.
Being a dad is best thing you can do, it's very exciting.
Parenthood changes things a lot.
When I was made captain, one of my things was that whatever happens in those four years, you don't want to make major changes just before a World Cup. We'd done it before, and it never worked.
