Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.

I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.