I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

It's no secret that I have, at best, a strained and awkward relationship with my dad. The Wasserman family - my mom, my sister, Lew and Edie - raised me. They are the people I define as my family.

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

My family were nothing but pleased when I told them I wanted to be a comedian.

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.