I think playing international FOOTBALL burns players out, but I was in and out of the England squad so NEVER FELT that.

I never went to school for writing, never took a writing CLASS, but when you're in a room with DAVID Simon and Ed Burns and Dennis Lehane and Richard PRICE, and they're going over something you've written, you LEARN what works and what doesn't.

Sometimes you GET so FRUSTRATED that things aren't WORKING out, you SAY, 'Let me step away for a while.' But the fire still burns.

You can only be INDEPENDENTLY CREATIVE for so LONG until your BRAIN burns out.

The main REASON I started The Katie Piper Foundation was because I had treatment ABROAD that I wanted other burns survivors in this country to have ACCESS to.

While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of GHETTO life. That KIND of REALISM better describes an EARLIER miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the BOOK of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto.

There's truth in light. You can tell what ELEMENTS a star is composed of and the TEMPERATURE at which it burns by the light it GIVES off.

I'm more likely to QUOTE the GOLFER George Burns than the LEGENDARY late comedian by the same name who LIVED to be 100.

For a BOY of TEN, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, FELT like a local VERSION of PARADISE.

I've always thought Ed Burns was a profoundly UNDERRATED actor. He's a great director, OBVIOUSLY. A great director/writer. But I THINK he's a stunning actor, too.

Environmental concern is a little like DIETING or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then SEEMS to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to DIET or PAY down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

I was the VICTIM of a VIOLENT ATTACK in MARCH 2008. I had sulphuric acid thrown in my face and was severely injured LEAVING me with loss of site in my eye and full thickness burns on my neck, chest, face and hands.

It's not ALWAYS FUN. It burns inside to PLAY defense. But you have to keep working and EVENTUALLY defense is SOMETHING you get used to.

At the end of the day, I've PLAYED six years, haven't MADE the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my HEART, so I really WANT to be playing.