I always wanted to represent the natural, healthy girl, and I didn't care if it was cool or trendy to look like you hadn't eaten in two weeks.

If I'm going to have something rich and yummy, I'm not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I'm going to make a pie from scratch.

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!

Leather is always sexy, and you have to wear leather when you ride a bike. It's more for protection, but it also gets you some style points, I think.

I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.

I don't starve myself. Anyone who knows me will tell you I have an appetite. I'd much rather work out and not diet than not work out and have to diet.

I'm from Santa Cruz in Northern California, and the 49ers were my dad and I's bonding time.

Everyone in my family is a nurse except me.

Without love, life has no meaning.

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

Wisdom that is not acted upon is just philosophy... but when lived as a verb, wisdom will be the foundation of your success.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.