My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
'Orphans' reflects unconscious elements in myself that were, at the time, indigestible and butting up against each other in my psyche; issues I wasn't really in touch with but was trying to put into a dramatic framework.
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.
Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
In New York City, it's popular. I used to think to myself, 'Man, there's a lot of gay people out here.' And it had me comfortable: it was like, I can be myself! I used to still try to hide it, until it was really overwhelming - there were just too much girls attracted to me!
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop’s outcast, or hip-hop’s stepson.
Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.
It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.
To keep winning, I have to constantly outdo myself.
I have always wanted to outdo myself, be it films or shows.
I don't take my work ever for granted. I still work very hard on every song and try to outdo myself every time.
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.
The first time I carried drinks was during the 2004 Champions Trophy. It was a wet outfield and I was running with the drinks and I couldn't stop myself and just went sliding into Sourav Ganguly, who was giving a team chat in the huddle.
I've always been someone who's had to compartmentalize my life because I was in the closet, and I was in fear of outing myself. I always had so much going on in my mind and couldn't share it with anyone, so I actually feel like, now that I'm out, I have less to compartmentalize.
At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
