For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.

I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.