I came to Madison to talk you into coming back to St. Louis. You were such a part of the community and the community was a part of you, that was not going to fit.

Certainly, with the Safe and Civil City Program that the city has and the Human Rights Commission, we try to work hard from having these things happen at all.

When you surround someone with positive role models, they know that they're not journeying by themselves. We found that if someone has a circle of support, they're less likely to go back inside.

You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.

Growing up, I used to go to an inlet to lay out and try to meet all the surfer guys.

I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'