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I like my privacy.
West Ham have a great academy.
It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.
For me, happy footballers play the best football.
What I say in the dressing room always stays there.
My roles for Arsenal and Sweden are very different.
There were a lot of reasons why I wanted to leave Arsenal.
It takes time to know what makes an individual player tick.
Where I came from had a lot of friends. A big social circle.
I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.
I do my job - I don't try to seek the spotlight; that's not my way.
I played team handball when I was a child. It is a very brutal sport.
I break out in a rash if I go to the gym; all I did was shave my chest.
I have a house with its own dock and I can take my boat out when I want.
I went to West Ham in order to play against Arsenal as often as possible.
I think Unai did a great job and was a great leader, and a fantastic coach.
If you want to play at Arsenal you need to be top, top, you need precision.
I won almost everything there is to win and I look back with great memories.
When you play against a Spanish team, especially Madrid, it is quite an open game.
Sweden usually don't play good against the poor teams. We like being the underdogs.
If there's a back door somewhere, I take it. I try to get about without being noticed.
I have always dressed to please myself, not other people. I don't care what they think.
When I went to Arsenal, people in Sweden said my game was more suited for Spain or Italy.
I had a coach when I was younger who encouraged me to be myself, that is where I was lucky.
Where I am from in Sweden was on the beach, so I love the sound of the water hitting the dock.
I've always been interested in clothes and shopping, and I have a few friends who work in fashion.
You can be yourself in London. If you are a bit different in the way you dress or look it is no problem.
Real Madrid's Bernabeu was an amazing stadium to play in. It was just on top of you, and such a big stadium.
I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can't concede goals. That's a tricky balance to find.
I loved my time in Japan, and I am grateful to have had the chance to live in Japan and embrace the Japanese culture.
The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.
The Swedish team plays very differently from Arsenal. There is more freedom with Arsenal and they play a passing game.
The problem in Sweden is that, when the players are younger, they are not allowed to develop their own style and skills.
Clubs have always wanted to buy me during the summer but I have always stayed loyal because I wanted to stay at Arsenal.
I felt Arsenal had let a lot of players go. When Thierry left I felt it was time for me to do something different and challenging.
I lived on being a quick player and my hamstring was breaking every time I made a quick move. I wondered what the hell was going on.
Some people thought I was crazy when I quit Europe to go to the U.S., but for me the quality of life and the place I live is important.
And at West Ham no one gives you a puzzled look if you get called up for your national team and players are never asked to play on injections.
You can see players do things in training that aren't a problem but they can't in a game situation. You have to work on it, relax and be brave.
But I'm constantly surprised by the amount of interest in how I look. It's flattering, but a little weird - at the end of the day, I'm a footballer.
Unai is very calm, composed and extremely detailed in what he expects. From Monday through to Friday, every single training session is very carefully planned.
I had hip surgery in America because I'd had problems during my last two years in Europe. They said out there that my hip was broken and I didn't know about it.
As a child I could lie in bed and do absolutely nothing for hours but once I decided to do something, big or small, I could not stop until it had been completed.
Arsenal showed the door to too many people. Why did they let Thierry Henry go? When I found out about his move I realised the Arsenal I played for were finished.
When friends come over from Europe, they think it's going to be rainy in Seattle but it's beautiful. It's a hidden pearl. And people here respect your private life.
I played against Ashley Cole all the time in training. For me, he is the best left-back in the world. He was the hardest opponent and I had him every day in training.
Sometimes when you play on the wing it gets a bit isolated and you can't help as much. But if you play a bit more central I can get the ball a lot more and help a lot more.
When I went to Seattle, it was quite a quiet town and we made it the biggest soccer following in America. We didn't have the paparazzi, though, and I needed that at the time.
When I came from Europe, I was told that Americans don't care about soccer and this and that. But the way people cared was beyond my wildest expectations. You can't manufacture that.
I made a conscious decision when I was about 30 that I wanted to do something different with my life. I felt a little bit lost and didn't trust people, so I decided to move to America.