"I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that."

“At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.”

“I like to do the splits onstage”

“Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.”

Source : Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.74, Knopf

“We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.”

“Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.”

Source : "Wayne Rooney: I've Given it all up for Kai, Coleen and World Cup Glory". www.mirror.co.uk. May 9, 2010.

“We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today. And then, of course, what the doctors say is it's not Alzheimer's. You run into that Catch-22 all the time. They say, well, it was probably just a temporary premature dementia, and they write-off the recovery to preserve their ignorance.”

“I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.”

“People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.”