Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.