“It really should not matter which colour of skin a person has. I know ...” — Jerome Boateng Quote

It really should not matter which colour of skin a person has. I know where my roots are, and I know that I've been born and raised in Germany. I see myself as a German, and I like to show that.

When you fall down or slip in a situation, and somebody scores a goal, it's normal. These things happen. It happens to me; it happens to other players, I don't care about these things.

In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.

I am happy to be a German. I'm proud, or I wouldn't be here in the team.

I tend to colour my hair myself with an at-home Wella dye. It allows me to control how red my hair is.

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.

My fashion cues come from my work, not the ramps of the world. I just keep working with so much colour, texture and structure, it rubs off!

There is one thing that is stronger than everything, and it is the colour of the shirt that you wear, and that is who you'll back.