It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

I have three dogs and a cockatoo.