Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

It's that sudden, jerky, fast-twitch ... It's just constantly there. It's a weird kind of feeling... As long I was going straight forward, I was fine. Anything side to side, any time I opened up my hips, that's when it shut down.

Nobody expects anything, nobody hopes for anything-we are all crushed by a kind of nervous breakdown.