I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.

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'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.