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'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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Obviously, I haven't really progressed that much at my craft.
I've made six or seven good films. The others, not so good.
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.
I criticize my own work pretty harshly.
Defensively, I could be a lot better; my decision-making at times can be a bit poor.
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
I'm not really the type of person that can sit and watch my own performances.
