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?'

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.

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

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

Why can't we all just get along?

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.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.