“In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have...” — Charlie Shrem Quote

In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.

I was, like, 22 years old. I had half a million dollars sitting in the bank. I had no expenses. Life was great.

I spend thousands of dollars on lawyers every day just to make sure that I'm not gonna go to jail.

Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty.

I pay my credit cards in full every month - as well as all my bills and mortgages.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.