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When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.