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I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn't one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.