"I never had a mother that was really a mother. I just had a kid that was a mother. She was eighteen, I was thirteen, and she used to go out and live it up. So I had to go out and get a job. I was work…"

"They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'no, no, no.'"

"You can't be a great singer if you don't know life."

"I don't like to be told what to do. I like to do what I want to do."

"I'd rather be a junkie than a square."