I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.
Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
I can't play a slave.
My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
I gave up on music. I still love to play, but it's too hard to make a living. And I think that was a mature decision to make.
I still have the passion to play.
I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.
I've always been a slave to my heart.