I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
At a certain point, I think, you harden yourself to the realities of the business.
I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.
I think it's the hardest part for about 80 percent of the guys in the NBA. That's just the way it is in the NBA, unless you're a mega superstar. You're just going to play wherever you go. You try to find the right fit and the right team with the right system and the right coach at the right time.
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.
I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.
I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.
I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
I don't think there is anybody, including Jeff Hardy, who puts their body through as much abuse as A. J. Styles.
I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.
I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.
I don't want to buy something that has harmed anyone. This is my absolutely strongest belief, and I believe other people think this, too. Or if they don't now, they will.
I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.
Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.
Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.
And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.
