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I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.