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Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.