I don't want to be 'the girl with cancer' ... I just didn't want that to be my only thing. But it is part of me. And it's a big part of me.

I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?

I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.