People are afraid to die, and even more afraid to live.

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone.