I really want to help people. I really want to give somebody that hope that they need to keep going.

One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.

Oh my God ... YOU are real. Oh my God ... You ARE real. OH MY GOD ... You are REAL! Oh my God ... You're really real!

When you get knocked down you get knocked down in Round 1 of life, there's Round 2.

Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I was hanging out with the wrong people and getting involved in the wrong relationships and everything just sort of spun out of control.

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people.