My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?
With Punk, I consider him to be like a brother to me. He's one of the guys who took me under his wing when I first came. So we've been able to maintain a good relationship. And there are very few people in the business that you can call true friends, so I consider Punk to be that and more. So yes, 'road wife' is the term we used to sum that all up.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
I mean, this is basketball, you have a lot of different teammates and you move around a lot, to find true friends is something special.
Your true friends will tell you what they believe is true.
I need more friends. It's kind of like my quest right now just to have more true friends.
