Quotes About Transition

I always think about the first day I came to FCW at the time. I remember walking in, and I had sparkly-sequin UGG boots on, sparkly-sequin jacket on, and matching sequin backpack.

I had to learn to call book jackets 'jackets' rather than 'covers.'

I may be going to Heaven or Hell, but I'll be going from Jackson.

Kerr is great, but I started my career under Mark Jackson, so there's no hard feelings there.

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.

I had left the James Gang, left Cleveland, and gone to Colorado because Bill Szymczyk was there, and so were a whole bunch of other people I knew.

When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.

When I moved to New York, I was dead broke and lost my mind, and my girlfriend dumped me and was with some banker making money. I wandered by Jane Curtin's house, and she's like, 'Come in here, dear. I'll make you lunch. Tell me, what's going on in your life?'

I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

I work hard on New Year's eve as I perform at shows. And then round it off by spending a lazy day on January 1st.

In January 2014 I left the Department for Education and spent the next 18 months away from politics.

I'm not the biggest fan of New Year's resolutions, but I'm a huge backer for real life change - that's why January gets me so geeked up.

I find January hard. Nothing really happens.

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

I was playing 25Ks in Japan, and now I'm the... champion of Indian Wells. It's crazy.

Of course I wanted to main-event wrestling matches in TNA, but in their eyes, no, that would not happen. So I went back to New Japan.

After the military, I floundered around between jobs for a while, and there was an opportunity for me to go live in Japan. I was living on the Okinawa Airport Base, off the grid, no real address.

I was actually in Japan when I had the conversation with the TNA brass about my situation coming to an end with them.

I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.