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I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

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

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

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

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 had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.

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

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 was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.