I’m a very even keel guy.
There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
‘The Ballad of Black Tom’ was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft’s legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.
That guy Hogan, he’s racist.
Something I’ll always remember – when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that’s kinda wild when you think about it.
I go to the pub, hang out with my family – that’s pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I’m actually a pretty mellow guy.
I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.
I think it’s actually more difficult to come to a club where everything is going great and everyone is happy. When you take over from a guy who has been sacked because things weren’t going well, it’s more straightforward.
You don’t face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He’s the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.
