This is to LeBron James: If you want to be the best, get rid of the comparisons. Get rid of all the comparisons that are out there. That’s what Michael Jordan did.
How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can’t even think of one guy I’ve been compared to.
When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.
Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can’t even think of one guy I’ve been compared to.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
The problem is when you start comparing numbers to other point guards. The league is about numbers, and it’s crazy. You make those comparisons, and I’m losing every battle.
While I understand the Howard Stern comparisons to help contextualize my craft for other people, and while I relate to the moral stance he took against a bigger corporate machine, that’s probably where our similarities stop.
But sequence comparisons simply can’t account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin’s comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.
I do not like comparisons that much. Each team has its own inner life.
There is a sense of responsibility when you play a real-life character because there are people who will see your work, make comparisons, and judge you. They have all the rights to do that because they know the real person. They might have seen that person also.
There’s always going to be comparisons, and that’s unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.
