I still love red velvet cake.

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

Don't believe everything you read.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

I absolutely love being a mother.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

Sports are a metaphor for life.