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Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.