One cannot plan for the unexpected.
When you're on the road, fans pay to cheer on their team and boo the other team; that's just part of it. That's what they're supposed to do. I expect it. I think everybody expects that.
I know a lot is expected of me, but I'm surrounded by some great teammates.
Competition is to be expected at a club like Arsenal.
I know my role on this team, and I'm expected to prepare and to perform every week and play well. I relish that opportunity - to be somebody the guys can count on week in and week out, to play really well. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's revolting to watch. I don't enjoy it. But when it's a Tarantino film, I'm lining up outside the door to see it, and I'm expecting to see something really crazy, a lot of blood, and for it to be funny.
I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.
