Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

Both my parents are first-generation success stories.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.

I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.