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Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I was very poor when I was young.