I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.
I've had the big ups and the big downs.
I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.
Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.
I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.
I started at the top and worked my way down.
I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.