It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.
When I first moved to Mumbai, I shared a flat with 12 boys.
I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
I have been a stranger in a foreign land.
A lot of people ask me what has been the biggest change with me being in England and a lot of people expect me to say something related to football, but mostly it's just growing up and becoming a man.
I think there's a difference between somebody who grows up in Paris or London and goes to Los Angeles. But if you grow up in the green fields, and you rarely go into the city, you're so overprotected that when you do go to L.A., it's almost a bigger slap in the head.
When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.
I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.
I love my husband, and I wanted to support him, but the transition to Washington has been my hardest experience. I felt very lonely and isolated.
When I first came to Hollywood, I couldn't afford a telephone.
New York was very frightening and very overwhelming, and I didn't really know anybody. My sister had some friends there, and I stayed with them, then I moved in with a friend of a friend. I was very outside my comfort zone. Then again, I was pretty uncomfortable in general - but I knew it was where I was supposed to be.
The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.
When I first moved here, I almost felt like I was obligated to hate L.A. as a New Yorker. I moved way too fast for this city. I walked everywhere, and I was lonely, too. It was a really hard time not knowing anybody, and you don't run into people the way you do in New York. You can go a week without seeing anyone.
As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.
When I came to Nashville, my personal life went to hell.
New York was scary, coming from the Midwest. At first, I thought I'd come in all cocky, like, 'I'm gonna bring this town to its knees!' After about a month, I was like, 'I wanna go home.'
You ever try to leave New York? I did once. I lasted about a year.
I transferred schools in high school, so I've been the new girl on the block.
I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.
It was a really tough transition going from rugby league to AFL.
I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.
