Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
I just keep my game plan the same and try to just go out there and be efficient and attack the strike zone.
Nobody taught me my slider. I mean, if you look at my grip, I don't think anyone has the same grip as I do. It's a separate grip. I hold it kind of weird and everything. When I started throwing it, I just wanted to start throwing something different and came up with that. I turned it a little bit.
I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.
I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.
This is a dream for me, it really is, to be the leader of a staff going into the season.
I'm a whole new pitcher. I'm more comfortable with all of my pitches.
When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.
The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.