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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.

What I think happened to the new arenas is that you need some memories. I remember going when the Staples Center first opened and it was like, 'OK,' but a couple championships later, and all of a sudden it becomes your house. You have to stake claim to it.

When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.

You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer.

You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Playing in sold out arenas several nights a week is something I have never experience before. I want to experience that. I want to experience that in my first year and build on that.