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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

You reach a certain age, and you realize, 'Wow: there are younger people doing this better than I can, and don't leave me out - I don't want to be left behind. I want to do it, too. Where are you going? I want to be part of it.'

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.