I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?
When I retire, my CV might have a few holes, things I haven't achieved that I would have felt I needed to do, but I won't know if I did need to do them until I retire.
What you put in, you usually get out. If you are not good enough on the day, fine, but if you put in everything you have, you usually get a decent result. When you lose, it motivates you to go again, not dwell on the past.
Things come and go - there's win, losses, and injuries, but you get back on the horse - but I appreciate what I've done more.
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.
I'd love to feature for the Barbarians. I'd love to win a Champions Cup, and I'd love to get to another World Cup and make a fist of it: get to a World Cup final at least and see what could have been, particularly after 2011 when Wales reached the semi-finals.
I did GCSE's and A-levels. I did my finals after the Lions tour in 2009 to get my law degree. So I've always had an eye on life beyond playing, irrelevant of the period in my career.
Welsh rugby has done its dirty washing in public. It's nothing new. We're a tribal bunch. If warring parties want to sway public opinion, they do it in the public arena.
I don't think you need to go global rugby to save the Lions, but I think you need to go global rugby to save rugby and not lose things like the Lions.
I'm thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play the best rugby possible.
I would like to think I am well aware of what the Lions are about and what they represent, but out of respect for your body and the players who are putting up their hands to be selected, you keep it at arm's length.
I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.
If I make a mistake, I just shrug it off and carry on.
I'm not the only one that's joined in the Maro Itoje song, to be honest with you!
I'm very fortunate I've got a good support network.
My wife says to me, 'You have achieved a lot'... yeah, I do know. But... there are a couple of things I haven't.
Going out there as a forward can shorten your career somewhat, whereas if you go out as a back, you will be OK.
Losing hurts, it always hurts, and it should hurt.
A draw is the lesser of two evils. A loss or a draw, then obviously we are going to take the draw.
I've no regrets. I don't think you can afford to.
