I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.

Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

I always tell people I'm grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, 'Wow.' And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to.