But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.

You can be very fulfilled as a mother, but that can't be the only way you are fulfilled. What about being a woman? What about being yourself? Your awareness of what's happening in the world? It lives altogether in a way that makes a whole. I guess I'd say I'm the wholest I've ever been.

I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad!