I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.

My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.