I always felt that I was, you know, smart. I just didn't have a lot of the resources that everybody else had... It was tough for me to catch up.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.
I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.
I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.