Depression is a very serious thing. People don't realise how deadly it can be.

No. 1 career highlight? It would have to be getting the MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

The high of victory in the ring was bigger than the biggest party. You'd get in the ring and hear thousands of fans chanting your name and I'd be giving it all back for them.

If boxing had a professional boxing association or something like that, I think it would be a better place.

It's an individual sport so you get in the ring on your own and then when you retire you tend to spend the rest of your life on your own.

It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

Everyone knows my story and lots of people have been disappointed in my deterioration as a man. But they can see I'm trying to get better.

Boxing has been very, very good to me.

Life has kicked me hard, hasn't it? Some of it's my fault, some of it's not my fault.

I don't want to be fighting at four or six-round levels - I want to fight for world titles.

Growing up in a pub taught me a lot about life.

Before I turned professional I used to do carpet fitting for my dad. I wasn't much good, it's a miracle I've still got 10 fingers.

We think, 'I'm Ricky Hatton or I'm Tyson Fury, I can take on the world.' You can take on the world in the ring but this problem called depression, you can't take it on.

We're out of our comfort zones with depression. I certainly was and whenever I have bad days now I speak to someone to get it off my chest.

It doesn't matter how many people say 'well, everyone makes mistakes Ricky, you've had a great career you should be proud of yourself' but that doesn't mean much compared to what goes on between my ears.

As I went into my role as a trainer I had to get more professional as people were putting their livelihood in my hands.

My passion is promoting and training.

I had an exciting style, I was very aggressive, a body puncher, and I attacked all the time.

My style appealed to people. That's why I had the fanbase.

The name Rico Nasty came from Instagram.

I don't want people to expect the hard tracks to continue my whole career. When I started making music, I wasn't making music like that.

As women, we're always supposed to be catty, or too cute to dance. And it sucks.

I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how crazy it gets.

I'm a little bit scared of everything. It's kind of funny. Whenever people ask me how I'm feeling, I'm like, 'I don't know. I'm scared. I'm nervous.'

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

The scene in the DMV now is very united. I don't know if it's for everybody but everybody is showing love, everybody is showing support. Everybody is just trying to make a name for themselves and they are willing to help other people. Everybody is willing to network and do things with people outside of who they know.

I stopped making music for other people.

It's very important when you in the studio to be with a confident creative.

I feel like being a 2019 XXL Freshman is just, it's important for me because not too many women can say they've... gotten anything like this, not too many people from where I come from can say that they've gotten anything like this.

I got expelled from high school my freshman year.

I love Rihanna.

I like music where someone is trying to get their power back.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

People keep trying to say I'm one type of artist and I'm just not.

I love that my friends understand that I'm not gonna forget about the old me.

I made 'iCarly' when I was 18 years old.

I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type of beat I picked.

I've always wanted to dress like this, and I've always wanted my music to have the edge, the twist to it.

I shot 'Poppin' in L.A. because I love L.A. Because when I came out here, I fell in love with it.

I feel like all artists have to come to L.A. at least once because it's just beautiful. It's peaceful.

I'm proud of who I am.

I think that it is important to mingle with your peers and get to know the people that you coming up with because everything that we're doing is history.

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

It is kind of easy for me to speak out. Just because I am very vocal in my music about a lot of different emotions, like anger, and normally stuff that people would hide, I'm okay with as a woman.

Whenever I'm around Spanish people, I'm kind of like a fly on the wall.

Some women can probably be Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, but some of us can't.

Taurus and Sagittarius do not get along.

I'm like pixie grunge. The perfect blend of sugar and spice.

I've never been the type of person to put myself in a box.