"My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side."

"I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously."

"It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier."

"My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy."

"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."

"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth."

"The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later."

"In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another."