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I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I couldn't make it. I couldn't. So, I tried this gentlemen's club, and, you know, I worked there, and it was just awful in those places. It was terrible.

I worked hard to get where I am. And I started with nothing.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

I got married when I was 16 so I had to do shift-work to make ends meet.

When I got signed, I wanted to be involved in a charity, but it was hard because I didn't know which problems to start with.

I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way.

I met my wife, I had no money, I had nothing, and I started my family without really, my career was nowhere, but I had these other businesses, I had these things I was doing to be able to afford a small home.

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.