Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their face and feeling uplifted.

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity.

I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.