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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.