Tennis is a small world.

For me, it's just staying in the present, enjoying what I'm doing, and making sure I'm making the kind of improvements and moves forward that I want to.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

Everyone gets motivated or inspired by different things.

I don't look for a fight or look for animosity or tension where it's not needed.

I had to experience many situations and emotions to develop, and I'm still striving to become the kind of competitor I want to be.

No player can step on court against me and feel confident that they will come out the winner.

We made the U.K. our home, and I'm lucky enough that I get to call myself British and have such great support at home.

Not many people can say, 'I was top 150 in the world for something,' in any discipline.

I needed to go through certain life experiences, and not just on the court, to make me into the competitor that I am, and also the person.

There's a great group of people around me, and I think it's the way they all work together with me which makes me a very lucky girl.

I don't think circumstances change who you are as a person. I don't believe they change your values - unless you willingly would like them to.

I try to stay very true to the kind of person that I want to be and the kind of athlete and the kind of professional I continually strive to be.

Everyone is trying to make that breakthrough into the top 100.

I made my older sister cry playing Monopoly once.

Winning is, of course, rewarding; who doesn't enjoy winning? But for me, it's about more than just winning: it's about knowing I'm putting in the day-to-day work to get a little bit better every time.

Meeting Bono was definitely a highlight of my life!

I'm a British citizen, and I'm incredibly proud to represent Great Britain. I've also represented Great Britain in the Olympics, so I'm definitely a British athlete.

I'm not a fan of drama.

I'm out there to play my sport, to showcase my sport. I'm not an actress.

I'm not a drama queen.

I definitely think about lifting the big trophies, and I dream about winning slams or making it.

I love competing in front of a crowd. I enjoy the performance.

Winning Wimbledon would be a childhood dream come true.

There's a real difference between singles tennis and working as part of a team.

When I started training at the age of eight, my dad used to encourage me.

I would love a big family. I have this vision in my mind where I have four or five children, and then, when I'm in my 60s, it's Christmas, and all my kids come home with their spouses and lots of grandchildren. By the end of it, there are 40 to 50 people in my house, and I look around, feeling totally happy, surrounded by my family.

I think I've always loved playing in North America.

When you're in the supermarket, you can usually tell straight away when someone recognises you, or they will come up to me and say, 'Well done,' or things like that. So it's nothing sinister or nothing super-crazy.

When I'm at home, I do get recognised more often, and I don't need to be in sports clothes to be recognised, which is different.

I really play tennis for me, enjoy it for me.

I know it sounds corny, but I think the meaning of life is to do what you love and be happy.

I'm so honored that I got the best guitarist award for the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards.

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.

I wanted to be a guitar player and musician so badly, and I prayed to get this the very few times I went to church, and I feel like I got my prayer answered.

It's funny, the power of music. I was watching 'Dracula,' the 1931 version with Bela Lugosi, and the only music you hear is at the very beginning of the credits. There's not one other piece of music; it's all silent. It's unbelievable, and it's very effective, too.

I love Loretta Lynn, and I love Roy Clark and Johnny Cash, everybody.

I like streaming music. I'll be in the car going, 'I want to hear Scotty Anderson.' He's a great guitar player not many people know about - maybe me and two other dudes know him. But I love him, and I can pull him up on Apple Music, and there it is, right there in my car.

You know how kids will wait outside after a gig and try to get an autograph from the band? I would do that, but when I found the guitar player, I would say, 'What advice can you give me?' And a lot of my heroes would say, 'Have your own style.' I always kept that in my head.

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style - the look and what he did with the guitar.

I always play so many different styles that I don't think anything I do surprises anyone.

I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock - everything.

I love doing it. It's great. I love doing the sessions, 'cause you're kind of like in a different band every day. I used to do them all the time. I think my first one was John Wetton from U.K. and Asia and all that stuff, King Crimson. It was so great. Really a lot of fun.

I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow' and 'Aja' and 'Deacon Blues' and 'Josie' and 'Peg'... all these songs are on one record. It's crazy!

I love watching documentaries on people like 'clean freaks,' because it's just so interesting to me for some reason.

When I came to California, I came from such an upper scale neighborhood, I was so sheltered, but I always knew I wanted to live in California, and I wanted to play guitar.

I love instrumental guitar records, but I also understand that, as a listener, it can be difficult to get through a whole album of just that one thing.

Being the founding member of Loser, my decision to leave was not an easy one.

I'll watch the Grammys and think, 'You hardly even see people playing guitar,' and it freaks me out.

I've been putting out records for so long, but I didn't want to tour because I didn't think anybody really cared.