If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.

I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

I'll say life is simpler.

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

I lost my way for a long time.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

I love you, Quinn Shaughnessy. From the very first day when we snuck into my house and stole those chocolate chip cookies and then hid behind the jungle gym, I was hooked.

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

Take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work.