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I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met.

I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.