I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

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

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.

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'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

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