What I try to do is don't have any ups and downs. I emphasize taking the same approach.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

I'm aware the fans in the U.S. can be less forgiving...I'll just have to do my best to please them.

It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.

It's important to find a team where you can be comfortable. I know there are a lot of high expectatons.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

I love New York, I love the Yankees, I love the fans here.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

Under the seams runs the pain.

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be it - it's that long.

Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.

Man believes and lives.

I know the signs of scaredness.

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.