During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to...

My brain is always whizzing around with worries: could I have done an interview better? Have I prepared enough for the next one? If it's really bad, I'll listen to an audiobook or use the Headspace...

In the back of your mind there's always these contractual things you have to deal with. You try to put that aside when it comes to training and playing.

Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.

I am very grateful to have beaten my cancer, but it has been tough adjusting to my new normal.

The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that they have experienced depression because of...

Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.

The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

There's a deeper level of healing that needs to happen for the world in general. There's a mass of people who are broken.

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

Women have been programmed to criticise their own bodies because we should have the shape that society, and in particular men, want.

'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt...

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

I concentrate more on inner beauty because when I worry too much or think negatively, it shows through my skin.

I have a suicide impulse.

The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a...

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my...

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going...

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology...

The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend...

I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less...