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I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

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 did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.