That's how I grew up.

Where in Austria did you grow up?

I was raised with traditional stories of leadership Robert E. Lee, John Buford at Gettysburg.

I was raised on Free to be you and me hip hop not as many woohoos for hip hop in the house.

I was raised in downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s, two blocks from the epicenter of punk music.

It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English.

Since I'm a product of this philosophy, of 90 10, and secondly, life on an incline, that's the way I grew up to be valuing what I got.

Growing up in Uganda then, I never knew what hunger was, till the age of about 12, when as a Muslim I started fasting during the month of Ramadhan.

And I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades.

I was happy to see American women of a different culture and religion, who come from a world totally different from the one I grew up in in Baghdad and other Arab capitals.

When I was growing up as a young kid, I had no choice, because I was taught at a very early, young age when my dad realized I wasn't going to fit into everything else that was being taught to me in school that he could teach me to figure out business at an early age.