I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.
I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
I don't really put too much pressure on myself. The only time people feel pressure is when they put it on themselves and listen to the outside stuff. I have great teammates and great coaches that do the right things around me that allows me to just focus on the game of football.
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.
I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.
In my sports or workout life, I like to prove to myself I can do something, whether it's a half marathon or whatever it is. I like to take challenges that scare me because then once we've accomplished it, we feel stronger.
I remember when I saw 'The Dark Knight' movie, and I was sitting there watching it, and there actually came one or two places where I had trouble divorcing myself from the reality of the locations because it was filmed in Chicago, and I know that city quite well.
There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.
I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.
I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
I felt very comfortable about myself when I was much heavier. I feel much better about myself from being fit.
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.
The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.
If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.
Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.
When I was ten years old, I had great pride in myself, which sometimes even took the form of boasting and self-praise; although I myself did not want to, I used to assume the air of someone undertaking some great work and mighty act of heroism.
My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.
I do not try to duplicate anyone's success; I am just really inspired by what they have done. I like the fact that The Roots can tour extensively, put out albums, and be so well received; that takes a lot of work. I really admire that, and it's something that I try to attain myself.
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
When they announce who I am and what I've achieved, I still pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
I see myself as a story teller.
I've had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I'm game. I'm game for that kind of thing. I'm certainly not too vain in that respect. If it's a great role, I'm willing to do whatever it is that it takes.
It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football.
Once in a while, I treat myself to a cheesecake or carrot cake.
I always was flattered when people would say I would do whatever it took for the team. I always thought of myself as that kind of guy.
