I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

I really kind of pride myself on figuring stuff out pretty quickly but I couldn't, couldn't. I just had no idea.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM [Transcendental Meditation] and that's really changed everything.

I think we have to change our perspective. I don't think life stops after 50 - if anything, it gets more and more exciting. For some reason, we don't honor or pay respect to aging. It's something that we look at as a negative, and yet every single person on this planet does it. I don't understand why it's not something that's celebrated, why there's some sort of an expiration date on who you are as a person worth watching and a story being told about you. It makes absolutely no sense.

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.