My daughter was a beautiful child.

I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

I've never been no superficial cat.