Ultimately, I am responsible for how I live my life now, and what I make out of it. In fact, I am actually grateful for what I've gone through and wouldn't change a thing-although I admit I wouldn't want to live it over again either. Once was enough.

Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together.

I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for.

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.