I had flops, I had success.
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.
I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.
On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.
I'm a believer of destiny, and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs, and I've seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.
Life's a rollercoaster. You're up one minute; you're down one minute. But who doesn't like rollercoasters?
What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
Your highs can't be too high, and your lows can't be too low, because you have to pick back up and move on.
I've been a very, very fortunate man. I've had a lot of highs - and a great deal of lows.
I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.
You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.
The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.
Life is a rollercoaster, and the lower you are, the higher you'll go.
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
I live in the extremes.
Life is an emotional rollercoaster. It really is.
Life needs to be like a roller-coaster ride with ups and downs. Otherwise, it's not exciting.
As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit of despair.
I've gone from the top of the world to the bottom of the ocean.
There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.
All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
It's sad to see boxers sometimes when they've come from these massive highs with thousands of people screaming for them. They're the best at what they do - then, that's it: stopped, finished.
It's been a hell of a roller-coaster ride for me.
Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all
