Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.