We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength.
We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.
We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.