Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

You gotta remember I was homeless. Whenever I think I have something to complain about. I go outside, walk across the street and look at my home, and remind myself of the time I was living on the damn lakefront in a car full of garbage bags with clothes, and ask myself, "What do you possibly have to be upset about?" I have nothing to complain about.

Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.