Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

Failure's a natural part of life.

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.