I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.
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I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
I've been homeless on a few occasions.
Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.
The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.
I was homeless for about 8 months, I refused to live with my dad or anyone for that matter. So I stayed somewhere that had no hot water, ever, no heat, I told myself I have to be strong and get through it on my own.
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.
When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
I grew up in a very large, poor family.
I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.