My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

I belong to a family of boys who were raised in meager circumstances in central Kansas, and every one of us earned our way as we went along, and it never occurred to us that we were poor, but we were.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

That background helped me a lot, because it taught me to fend for myself from a very early age, and to be responsible. It was an upheaval of an upbringing, which seems to have worked, I guess.

My parents were very strict. They thought boarding school would do me good. So, when I was about seven, I was put in one in India for a while.