You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

I am a student of whoever I can learn from.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

My main job is to go and have fun. When I do that, everything just seems to fall into place.

I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.

Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

What do you think about America?""Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having to remember that they're gone.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it.

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.