You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.

I don't judge people on their personal lives.

I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.

I just respect Kanye as an artist.

I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.

Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.

It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.

I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.

I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.

I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

I view myself as a male artist.

I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.

I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.

I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.

I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'

It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.

In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.

I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.

I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.

You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.

I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

I remember starting out and covering songs.

I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

You need to know when to surrender the album.