My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would've thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!