If I would have chose baseball, I think I would be missing the hell out of football a lot more. For me, I wish I could do both.
Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.
If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
Music is universal, man. I got bitten by the wrestling bug and now I just do them both.
President Trump wouldn't stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.
I had an artistic streak and was good at painting and drawing and also very good at English, but I did want to be a scientist. The education system means you have to choose physics or Shakespeare. It can't be both.
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
I really love both acting and singing equally.
I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.
I loved psychology and I loved history.
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.
I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.
I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
I love the novel as a form, as an adventure of mind and soul. Really, I absolutely love writing them; they consume my days and nights - what can I say? But I am an avid film student, too: I watch a movie every night.
I guess I'm fortunate in that two things I always wanted to do, since I was 16, were play music and get into news media. I'm very lucky to have two things that can engage my brain at once.
I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.
I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don't mean gender-wise - I just mean intellectually.
Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and I could never given up one for the other.
I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
Currently, I work as an actor, but I still love music.
