She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.

I feel life I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to live the past behind.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.