You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.
I feel that the All-Star game is more like a party because its made up of a lot of elements. However the core of All-Star is still the 48 minute-game and all the fans will pay all attention to the showcase of the players excellent skills. The result of the game is not much of a concern.
The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.
Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?
I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.
Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.
Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.
I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.
Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,
I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.
If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong,
Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.
