Quotes About Growth

I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

It took me three albums to get the confidence and to find out what I could do that made me different from other people. And the first record, really, was a process of trying.

It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.

For me, none of the albums after 'Tusk' quite had it. I think we lost something after that.

There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.

Break-up albums are the best kind.

All my albums are evolutions, one on top of the other.

Lyrically, I've always thought about albums as a record of a period of time.

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to learn. Instead of waiting around on set all day, I'd rather be learning something cool.

Growing up is hard enough. When you have to deal with adults all day, it's just that much more difficult.

I grew up playing bigger guys all my life, so it's nothing different.

I've been on campuses all my life.

I choose fighting. I change all my life.

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

I love acting. I'm definitely working on all things acting.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

I got some skills I can build on; I can be an all-around player.

Well, I'm definitely gonna focus on being a better all-around player.

It's not like I was a one-of-a-kind talented guy at 18 who made it to the NBA and have been playing in All-Star Games ever since.

Growing up, I didn't really play in a lot of All-Star games.

After MIP, it was like, 'OK, there is way more.' We thinking MVP, we thinking All-Star.

My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.

You want to give your children better than what you had and make them feel like they have everything. But I think there is also a lot of value in making them work for things and allowing them to see other places.