When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this.

Thats the thing about flying You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford.

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.

I have an awful lot of energy.

I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.

My life is a struggle.

I don't play any instruments. I don't produce. I don't know which keys or chords I am using, so, in essence, I need the band and the production team - otherwise, I am just some guy with a hat and a song.

Broken hearts made faults and fools of us all.

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

I would love to be like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. They were catapulted into stardom when they were so young - like I was - and they still haven't gone down the wrong path and I hope neither or them will. I find that really inspiring.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.