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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.