Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.