I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

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.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.