I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
I've never been in a gang. None of my friends have been in a gang. I've never rolled around with big entourages.
I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it.
When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.
I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.
I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.