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I worked hard at Everton. I learned many things, and I was lucky enough to achieve my goal of returning home.
So long as I keep performing week in, week out for Everton, I will have the chance to stay England number one.
When I think about a mid-table club like Everton spending £150 million during the summer, I am lost for words.
Midfield, defence - I have even played out wide for Everton, so I will do a job anywhere and give 100 percent.
It was hard for me to leave because Everton were my boyhood club. I supported them from when I was a young kid.
When you are professional and working in a club like Everton, the obligation is to be motivated, to be focused.
I'm very happy at Everton; it's a very good club with very good structure. The fans love the club and the players.
We had a really good club at Everton who gave me the opportunity to do the job the way I felt it needed to be done.
Everton have put their faith in me, and I intend to honour this shirt and demonstrate on the pitch why I came here.
At Everton, we have always tried to do good deals and have always tried to buy at the right age and the right price.
I love Hull as a club, the people there are amazing, at Watford and now Everton. I have big respect for all of them.
Normally in the past whenever Everton have beaten Liverpool, the accusation was that they wanted it a little bit more.
I'd always like to score at Goodison Park, being an Everton fan growing up. Anfield as well would be a nice place to score.
The Everton fans seem to know football, seem to understand it, it seems to be in their blood and they really back the team.
I want to be the top scorer of the league, take Everton back to the Champions League, and reach the Brazilian national team.
I just want to do the best I can, which means playing for the England full side one day and carry on playing well for Everton.
In my living room I always used to tell my mum 'one day I'll score for Everton' and when that happened it was unbelievable for me.
I just want to do the best I can, which means hopefully play for the full England side one day and carry on playing well for Everton.
I like Everton. If I'm going to cheer for that kind of football team, I'm going to cheer for Everton. But the Seahawks are my passion.
Everton fans don't just come to watch the football. They are there for Everton, the club. They really believe in the history of the club.
The Everton goal was very important. It was the one that got us through, and it was great to go into the crowd and celebrate with the fans.
Within 24 hours of my departure from Everton, I had already received the first offer. Then they kept coming, but I keep it all away from me.
I've met some Evertonians in the street, and they've been friendly. I've had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They've been really nice.
The main reason I have joined Everton is not to try to help my England ambitions - that will come if I am playing consistently well for Everton.
I would never have left Everton for anybody but an ambitious football club. And I thought Manchester United would have given me that opportunity.
It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.
I have been playing box-to-box more for Everton as a two, so I have felt comfortable in that position, but anywhere across the midfield I can play.
We never seem to make things easy for ourselves at Everton, and at City, it was the same, having to come from behind to get ahead in the big games.
There's been a lot come through at Everton: Wayne Rooney, obviously, and lately, Victor Anichebe has made it, James Vaughan, and the likes of myself.
I signed as an 11-year-old for Everton. I broke into the Under-18s at the age of 14, then the reserves at 15, then I was in the first-team squad at 16.
I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids.
The biggest thing I will miss is 4 July when Everton are due back for pre-season training. I loved that day. I lived for it, getting back with the lads.
Every time I have played against Everton, whether it was home or away, straight away the first thing that comes to mind when you see the fans is passion.
I got scouted at six by Everton. My parents said it was maybe a bit too young. A year later, I went down to trials at Everton and have been there ever since.
I'd been at Everton for more than 11 years. We'd qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I'd been voted manager of the season three times.
Getting the opportunity to become England's number one was down to being at Everton, I believe, and being able to put in solid performances week in and week out.
When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.
I always had that youngster tag at Arsenal, so hopefully with this move I am able to make a name for myself in the Premier League and create history with Everton.
I love Liverpool FC. My dad used to take me to games because he was a shareholder at Everton. When I came down to London, I realised that Liverpool FC was my team.
The expectations? It is normal at a club like Everton. We want to win every game, do everything that we can to win our matches, and at the end we'll see our position.
If I got sacked because my results weren't good enough at Everton, I accept it, but getting sacked when they finish eighth, it is ridiculous. In fact, it is ludicrous.
I was not guaranteed a starting place at Everton. I had a lot of injuries. Darron Gibson and Marouane Fellaini were in form, so it was a push for me to get in that side.
His potential is greater and higher than Everton as a final destination. If Romelu was to play at Everton until the end of his career I know he has left something behind.
As a kid, I looked up to Gazza, and to Wayne Rooney because he came through at Everton. Zidane has been one of my favourite players and I was always watching videos of him.
I don't know if desperate is the right word but I know the fans have a big, big desire to see Everton challenging for titles and to win something but we have to go day by day.
I always followed Everton. If the team were playing on television, I would watch the game. If not, then I would look to check the results. I always wanted to see how they were doing.
I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.
I have had four great years at Everton. The fans have been brilliant with me from the day I signed until the day I left. I am proud that the club will always be a big part of my career.
When I broke into the Everton side under Roberto Martinez, I was playing in the No. 10 role, and I had never played there before, so I was getting used to that role as a first-team player.
I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.