I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

You can be born into a musical family and have an ear for music but being technically gifted, be it playing an instrument or songwriting, takes years to get good at. So for me, I'm excited to start over, and yeah, I have a few talents I can build off of. But I see this as a long process; it's a marathon.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

I just write mechanical things.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.