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.

Why can't we all just get along?

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?'

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

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

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.

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