Being in UFC is a great promotion for me because I have more fans from all over Australia.

My right-hand hit is my favourite.

I wrestled before rugby league so I always had a pretty good wrestling background, a good base, and that helped with my football. It just meant my balance was always so good; a strong core, good hips and just things like that just really played a factor in how I ran the ball and tackled.

My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.

I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want - but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let's remember I'm five foot bloody nothing!

I didn't think I could make the NRL, but I was confident in myself that I could make the UFC.

I made promises to myself and my family that I'd be in the UFC before my first daughter was born, that didn't happen. I was almost at breaking point a week before I got that contract, I was going to go back to concreting - that weekend I get my major sponsor, which was huge, and I end up getting my UFC contract the weekend after that.

I've always been a sort of goer.

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

Robert Whittaker has really opened eyes, look what he's doing.

It's definitely tough when people don't believe in you. Actually, that's wrong. It's not that they don't believe in you. They just care. A lot.

I've never been here to simply compete.

My dad's Macedonian, mum Greek... so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.

One of my biggest fan bases is probably Macedonians, they always get behind me. They're always hitting me up on Facebook speaking Macedonian to me which I don't understand, so I get my dad to translate it for me.

I've been on magazines in Macedonia and all things like that.

I was never planning on just making the UFC, I was always planning to be champion.

Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.

I'm always my hardest critic.

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

I love my own music.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

I'm a very caring person.

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

I'm very happy with my body.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

My mom is definitely my rock.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

Simplicity makes me happy.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

Soul music is timeless.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.