Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
In high school, when you're a top player, there are ways of getting eligible, ways of getting out of going to class. It made going to the next level, which is college, that much harder.
Stopping me? That's impossible. There's not anything that can really stop me.
I've brought excitement back to the game. I make the game fun.
Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.
My biggest asset is my combination of size and speed.
I'm a physical receiver, yet I can run and move like someone who is 5-8 or 5-9.
I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.
Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.
I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.
At first I didn't understand what [Thelonious Monk] was doing, but I went back again, and what I can say about Monk is that I heard ancient Africa in his music. When he played, it was like a ballet. He captured the sound of the universe. Monk could take a triad, a simple chord, and make it sound dissonant. I'm sure that element he had in his piano was part of the two years he spent traveling with his mother in gospel music in the tent shows.