My name’s Andreas, and I have a familiar story. I’m 23 and I’ve admired your work for the past several years. I’m of a Creole/mixed-Latin descent. My family’s Caribbean so I have quite a weird look, I could pass for a cousin of yours maybe haha

Anywho, I remember in your StarTV/Walk this Way video, you said “even if 5 million people say no, one person will say yes, and that’s all you need.”

I’m in school to be in the medical field, but I work for a casting agency in Los Angeles for fun. and I few months ago, I saw that the famed/talented/genius photographer David LaChapelle was having a casting call.

I remember your words, and your story, and despite my fear of not being good enough, I just took that chance and went for it. A few days later he booked me for his project, and it was a dream come true!!!

Since then I worked next to the pop icon Kylie Minogue in her music video and have done other cool modeling projects and commercials, I’m going to do a major commercial tomorrow actually, and honestly all thanks to you! I have a collection of your pictures and interviews. Your words and story are something that I treasure and use. I’m glad that you work to inspire people.

In life, even if you don’t think you’ll score what you want in a million years, you still have to take a chance…