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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

I was hit for the first time before I was married.

For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.

My first album was completed in three months.

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.