"So Tony, do you think you were really a product of the system?" "Yes and I know I was and I'm not ashamed to say so." "Yes I come from a broken home and I lived in a dysfunctional family environment where my stepfather was violent towards me and my mother."

His adolescent years

"Were spent surrounded by dysfunctional young people just like himself.  And his start in life was out of his control.  he didn't choose to put himself in that situation it was just how it was." he could have been born into a completely different family and had a complete different outcome but in his own words it is what it is and it was what it was.