Al speaks his mind about the way he is being treated

"What I want people to know is that I am not the caricature portrayed by the media. I am complex, contradictory and capable of great intelligence but also remarkable stupidity," he writes. "In other words, I am a human being. To me, labels are for clothes, not people. So ... Please don't try to define me; don't try to categorize me; and most of all, don't label me. Instead, JUST GET TO KNOW ME.