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My mother was a seamstress. My dad, he worked at this place, they dealt with like animal feed or something. I think that they did the best for us - they always were hard working people. They, I think that's where I get my hard working ways from, because I'm busy from the time I wake up in the morning until I go to sleep at night. My mother always says she was like the weird one in the family. My mother really tried to do a lot of different stuff with me and my brother, which was, like he put us in martial art classes and she, after a while she joined it with us. She would get on the bike and, that's rare where around where we're living, like, get on a bicycle and ride the bicycle with your children through our neighborhood. We didn't really see that a lot, because we live, like our side of the town is the Black side of town. You don't see nobody's mother riding the bicycle with them, or taking them for walks, and talking to them about spirit, and the Creator, and nature, and stuff like that. She still dresses stylish and artistic. That's where I get my artistic side from. I do whatever I can do [laughter]. I like to write. I'm a singer, a songwriter, that's like my first love. I think I was born singing. I put out an independent album with Lotus Universal Records. My album was called "Who I Am".
Whenever I would get like in a, you know, you have these funky moments when your mood just gets negative. But when I start writing, it's like, I get into this fantasy world, it like it just goes away. It's like, it's just like a, like some sort of like therapy for me, or something like that. But, um, I make my own clothes. My clothes are handmade. I like to hand make some jewelry, like bracelets, necklaces, stuff like that. I'm a painter. I went back to school in my mid 30s, and I got my degree in art, maybe about five years ago. So, my main skill there when I was going to school was painting. And I just love creating, basically.
My mother used to be one of those seekers, like trying out different stuff like Buddhism. She would study about that, or Islam, like Christianity, of course. But, my mother, she didn't force anything on me and my brother. She let us make our own decision. I just feel, I think I'm dedicated to yoga, like, just to get, just to get that, that feel of it, and it just helps a lot with stress and dealing with life and everything so. But it's like a moving, a moving meditation, like a long prayer. So I noticed a lot that it has helped me a lot with handling my kids, it has helped me a lot with like how I deal with people and stuff. Yeah, I think I'm going to be doing yoga for the rest of my life [laughter].