If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.

One truth I know for sure is that I am so blessed in my life.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

It is important to always love what you do and do what you love. This is my mentality towards my career and my personal life.

Listening to my fans and seeing love and support through social media from them is what I live for.

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

Accepting new challenges makes me come alive.

Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

I love my fans unconditionally. They have been supportive of me through everything, and I would not be here, giving this interview to you, without them.

Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

May you be spurred into action, not just by what you read - but all your Soul is willing to share.

Think differently, BE better!

Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.

In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

Most good things come with the risk of something bad.

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.