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I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.

I wasn't very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.