You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.