I had a picture-perfect childhood. My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.
I want to do something extraordinary, not just make a tackle. I want to make people's eyes widen, like, 'God, you see that?
For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.
It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy.
A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.
I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up.
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in some of those instances, the words are being taken back or redefined so that they lose their injurious quality.
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel like I want to transfer it from the notebook to the page, I do, and then comes this very strange process which is difficult to describe in that I'll write until I get stuck or I can't go any further or I'm boring myself or whatever and then I might go to another poem.
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.