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Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.

You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.