I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.