I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed.
There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.
The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.
The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.
When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.
Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.
I got a feeling I had loads when I was in primary school, 'cause I had red hair; you know, like Duracell.
I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.