I was coddled, and there is a permissiveness that sometimes goes on with people who are successful as actors.
Successful parties create their own monsters.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.
We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.
Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.
A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.
The one thing nobody was taught was how to deal with success, and I think that happens to everyone who makes it at a young age.
Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.
Sometimes people start with you. Especially in local places - 'Hey, go get your shine box.' So I go out earlier. I wear sunglasses and a cap... That's the downside of being successful.
When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?
In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.
People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong.
