 I say that right off the bat because it's such an important part of my story. I grew up in a little town outside of Buffalo, New York. My family wasn't a wealthy family. Eight kids to feed, all in Catholic school at one time or another. It was a pretty tough financial experience for my family. My parents were great Catholics. We went to Mass as a family every Sunday. The other side of that is, all through Catholic school, I believed in God, but faith was a different issue. I didn't have good faith.