Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

I'm very happy with my body.

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even my creativity is different and more connected. It might be 10 minutes a day; it might be 20 minutes a day. But every day in this crazy world, it's a sense of peace and purpose.

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.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.