“I can honestly say that my whole life I’ve been an optimist. I became even more optimistic once I started understanding my pop’s phrase ‘God is love.’… When something happens to me, I try to look at the other door, sometimes the back door, to find some kind of optimism. I have experienced obstacles, setbacks, inconveniences, and disappointments like we all have. When these things occur, my initial impulse wants to say, ‘Why shit be happening to me all the time?’ But I catch myself quick, and that’s usually followed by a strong intuition of how I can make the situation work in my favor, how I can turn a misfortune into a fortune.”