I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.

I don't mind people looking at me. That's never bothered me. I don't want them looking at me in my house; now that would bother me.

To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.

I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.

Baseball, in my opinion, would be a lot better if you could just make the same salary as everybody else in the world, and you don't deal with any of the other stuff. But that's not how it is. The main thing is I want to pitch against the best players in the world, and you can't do that playing in a pickup baseball league in your town.

Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.