What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

When you're good at something, make that everything

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

Never be focused on yourself.

When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.