My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open."Have you been watching Oprah again?

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

Peace is more than just a feeling. It's the mental and physical frequency where you'll find all your real power.

I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.