Quotes About Transition

At 19 years old, when I came out of St. John's, I was fresh out the 'hood. I was fresh out of Queensbridge.

As soon as I got into country music, it was like hook, line and sinker. I was so focused on country, I ended up leaving all those '80s hair-band CDs behind - which now I still wish I had, but I was done with it.

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music.

That's why I left Germany and went to L.A., that's why I hooked up with the lawyers, that's why I hooked up with a big management company - just to protect us, to keep the kind of image I could live with.

I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.

I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.

In 2010, I attended Prince George's Community College in hopes of transferring to The University of Maryland. My major was computer science, and the goal was to one day work as an I.T.

I like to think I'm fairly grounded, and I have friends who will very happily tell me if I'm ever being big-headed. I know things will change. But I'm hoping it's nothing too drastic.

I think that there are a number of older-guard technology companies who either genuinely believe or are hoping people will believe that companies aren't going to move to the cloud that quickly or that a very large amount of workloads will remain on-premises forever. I don't believe that.

I've been doing theatre for years, but film acting has broadened my horizon.

Some people believe I have an automatic advantage over other female MMA fighters, so they think 'well she has to be stronger, because she used to be a male,' but if they look into the science of it and what the hormones do to the body, to the male body once taken over a period of time... it dissipates.

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

Before boxing I was a car salesman but I was horrible at it and had to make a living elsewhere.

At first, I was a pretty horrific singer, and then I got a little better.

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.

I don't know where horse riding could have taken me, and it's something I can always go back to when I've retired from football, but the crossroads came in my life when Chelsea wanted to sign me and make me a professional footballer in 2013 when I was 20.

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

Once I hit my 30s, I realized I needed to make changes, so I moved to the country to spend time with my horses.

As an actor, I feel there isn't much to explore on TV. So, if I get better work as a host, why wouldn't I do it?

I always said I would never leave 'Big Brother' unless I was sacked or not wanted, so if it does go elsewhere and they want a new host then fair enough, but I'll be devastated.

There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

Actually, acting and hosting shows just happened on the way, and I will do it 'til it lasts and then concentrate on writing.

I was Top Celeb. There's only a short step I think from being Top Celeb to hosting it.