It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

I worked because I could control it.

Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.

I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

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.