If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.
I don't listen to the critics.
You gotta deal with a lot of people, the naysayers... but I've always been the guy who kinda just smiles and laughs at it. I use it as constructive criticism to be honest. Whether they're intentionally trying to be kind of spiteful or not, it's constructive criticism because you can't say there's always truth to it but there's definitely something.
I agree that my films have flopped, and I have been slammed for my nasal voice, my look, and my dialogue delivery. But every time I got a negative feedback, I went out of my way to work on it.
Any time that you're criticised, it drives you on, and you try to prove people wrong.
Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
I just value my family's opinion as far as my music goes because that's the ones that really know you.
The calls aren't always going to go your way, and you can't complain about it. I tried to learn that as a young player, and you just got to play through it.
