Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

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.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.