The Velez fight wasn't my best.
Although I'm very competitive, I'm also very critical of myself.
I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.
I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
I can watch a film, even a film that I've been in, and think, 'I'm not sure, 100 percent, what I think about it.' I'm not sure what I think about what I've done in it.
I'm one of those people who can't watch themselves do anything. I could never watch myself wrestle. I've probably watched a handful of my matches. I never could watch myself. Even when I played college basketball, I hated film days... 'Oh God, I'm gonna watch myself screw up.' I'm just one of those people who can't watch their work.
Except for a few episodes, I have not watched any of my shows. I don't think I like to watch myself on TV. I get very critical about what I am saying.
I only listen to my music. I'm just analyzing it. Critical. Seeing what I like what I don't like. Say what I should have said. What I could say next time, what I should have said, things like that.
Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.
Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.
A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.
I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.
I'm a very vicious critic of myself.
It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.
When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.
A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.
It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.
I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.
I criticize my own work pretty harshly.
The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
