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It just so happened that for most of my life I've lived in the suburbs.

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.