My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.

I love what I do and I love being an athlete, but I also love all the things that have come with it.

We all started under the sun and finished under the lights.

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

Racism is kinda old. For real.

Pretty isn't beauty. Pretty is how you look; Beauty is who you are. Pretty is in the face and body; Beauty is in the heart, mind and soul. Pretty fades; Beauty grows.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.