Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

I love the French horn.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.