After WORLD Cup 2010 in SOUTH Africa I will no LONGER PLAY for la Nazionale.

When I left South Africa there were 10 MILLION people - when I CAME back there were more than 40 million. I had to LEARN how to GET to the highways because when I left where there were no highways.

I WANT to SEE Nelson walking down the streets of South Africa; I want to see him walking HAND-IN-HAND with WINNIE Mandela.

We emigrated to SOUTH Africa and later to CANADA so I went to SCHOOL in several places.

I've been to India, Jordan, SOUTH Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Australia, Madagascar, Oman, The STATES, and a lot of countries in EUROPE, just to visit... I wanted to make music to connect all of these INFLUENCES, and make a multicultural music with these experiences.

At the end of the day, when you go on to Google everything is about the way you were sacked when you were in charge of Australia. It doesn't MENTION the GOOD things I did with South Africa or the good things I did in my first year with Australia when I brought in a lot of young PLAYERS and gave them opportunities and TRIED to build a team.

People think that SOUTH Africa and Australia are culturally similar but, having WORKED in both environments, I found that THEORY to be UNTRUE.

Having coached in SOUTH AFRICA, you don't REALLY WORK with wrist-spinners - you work with serviceable finger-spinners.

In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use LOCAL actors. And it's not ALWAYS a STREET. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

I THINK South Africa has shown it can host such a big EVENT as the WORLD Cup, so why not HOLD the Olympics at some point in Africa? MAYBE not just in one country but in a host of countries.

I was 51 when I voted for the FIRST time in 1994, and I LOOK at SOUTH AFRICA through those spectacles.

In AUSTRALIA, I almost BECAME a counsellor. At the end of each PERFORMANCE there would be a queue of sobbing people backstage. They all wanted to EXPLAIN why they LEFT South Africa.

When the situation POLITICALLY BECAME intolerable within SOUTH Africa, we USED the arts as a weapon for CHANGE.