I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing.
In Saudi Arabia - recognized as one of the worst violators of women's rights - women outnumber men on university campuses and yet are treated like minors who need a male guardian's permission to do the most basic things.
You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.
I know I can get to the basket whenever I want, but I've got to be able to create some plays, like easy plays.
I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.
When you get some easy baskets, the basket definitely looks like it's much larger.
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.
If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, 'I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made it!' You see it a lot of times - you'll have an athlete that you love, and then they'll be like, 'I also want to rap,' and you're like, 'Don't do that.' I was that kid.
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.
Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!
