I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

You can't let other people dictate what your art is supposed to be. That's the opposite of art. You should constantly be challenging yourself to grow and change and create and evolve. I'm into that spirit of experimental and underground music. The constant, the groping, seeking, moving forward, regardless of where it might take you at that moment. It's all part of a larger arc.

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.