Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.

These are optimistic pieces, travel pieces that go anywhere