I was an introvert really. I spent a lot of time in the crib reading books. Staying out of trouble.
I love and have respect and admiration for everybody in my past. I don't have any animosity toward anybody.
If you are spiritual and faithful about your situation, you'll make it through it. And my life is a testimony to that.
When I first got to Los Angeles, hip-hop music was a scary thing not only to white America but to middle-class black America.
I didn't come from the West Coast experience, I came from Dallas and I was an introvert and a nerd.
Snoop Dogg has always held me up. He's always held me above the fray, and that keeps me relevant. Wherever he goes, he takes my name with him when he does interviews. He's talking about me. He keeps me alive, and that feeds my spirit.
In the hip-hop world, Eazy-E was the personification of evil. He paid my hospital bill, about $60,000, but he made me pay him back, which is cool, except that I later found out that he paid the bill out of my share of a publishing deal he made for me.
I never really felt apprehensive because of my voice because after a while I'd gotten used to it, so I figured it would only be a matter of time before everybody else got used to it.