“I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.”

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.

When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

Love me like you’ll never see me again.

Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.

From the beginning, I’ve had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say – and I’ve learnt that they’re meaningless, and they’re mostly inaccurate. So I don’t worry about it, because there’s nothin’ for me to deal with.

It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.

I’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.

There’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.

In most states you can get a driver’s license when you’re sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane.

When I’m playing the 1-guard, teams do a great job of just loading up and preparing for my drives and preparing for my three-point shots.

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.

Man, anytime the ball goes through the basket. It doesn’t matter if it’s a jumper or a drive.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.

I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.