Public HOUSING officials are free to DISCRIMINATE against you on the basis of criminal records, including arrest records. And so, you KNOW, what you find is that even for these extremely minor offenses, PEOPLE find themselves TRAPPED in a permanent second-class status and struggling to survive.

As EQUALITY INCREASES, so does the NUMBER of PEOPLE STRUGGLING for predominance.

I've pretty MUCH ALWAYS LIVED paycheck to paycheck. I NEVER considered it struggling, but it has always been a high-wire act.

There are DEFINITELY - there is definitely an ELEMENT of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these FOLKS are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important WAYS.

If you were asked to GO on 'Mastermind,' what would your specialist subject be? I wouldn't have a clue what I could answer questions on. Birmingham City Football CLUB would be a start, I suppose, but with a hundred ODD YEARS of history, thousands of MATCHES, players and incidents to recall, even access to Google would leave me struggling.

I want to motivate PEOPLE because I know how it is, struggling, and coming from a PLACE where you have NOTHING. So my thing is to motivate people to let them know WHATEVER you put your mind to, or whatever you love to do, then stick with it and don't give up.

What inspired me to WORK so HARD and to MAINTAIN my determination was seeing my mother. She was an IMMIGRANT and was struggling in America to make it by; that inspired me to work hard.

It was the early days of ROCK 'n' Roll in this country. We were all STRUGGLING to learn music, it MIGHT be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

The goal is to GET PEOPLE off low-calorie diets. They're STRUGGLING, they're BARELY EATING anything. They need educating.

My interest in acting CAME from seeing Broadway SHOWS on summer trips to New YORK as a child. It was the ORIGINAL production of 'A Chorus LINE' in an easy tie with the first 10 -15 minutes of Dustin Hoffman in 'Tootsie' that hooked me on the romantic idea that the impossible, difficult life of a struggling actor was for me.

I THINK honest lyrics help somebody SAY, 'I was struggling with this, but if Jon goes through that, too, and if Jon's telling me that his life isn't as good as it SEEMS on his Instagram,' that HELPS somebody in their day to day.

I'll see somebody struggling with something, and it doesn't matter if it's IRONING or mopping or TRAVELING, my brain just STARTS to percolate.