I've always loved music. I've worked on music and written music, but, it wasn't until I was actually on the road full time with WWE that I put my first album out.

I didn't want to be good for a girl: I wanted to be as good, if not better than, all the guys.

I'm good at wrestling, and I love it with all my heart.

I try to remember who I am and what I come from, because I didn't come from super means. I had to work and pray and try really hard to succeed and get everything that I wanted out of life.

When I fell in love with wrestling, I fell in love with the characters and the over-the-top kind of personalities and the wrestling aspect of it.

You want to be taken seriously as an artist and not just known as 'that girl wrestler who sings.' So you want to go out and stand on your own legs. But at the same time, I don't negate the fact that without everything I've accomplished in wrestling, I wouldn't have been given so many really cool opportunities on the music side.

Wrestling will always be a part of me and a part of my life. I just love it too much.

I was always writing - whether it's ideas, poems, whatever - because we spent so much time in the car traveling from city to city.

I'm very proud; I have such loyal fans, and they would follow me to the ends of the Earth, and that's an amazing, amazing thing.

I was honored to be part of the movement in the mid-2000s, and it was definitely a transitional period of women's wrestling because, you know, Lita and Trish were putting on incredible matches and main eventing even before I came up and debuted.

You can teach anybody wrestling moves, hopefully, if they have an athletic bone in their body. However, the ones that are going to make money and be different are the ones with personality.

I wanted to start a family, but it wasn't something that I was going to take a break to do.

I always focus on what is next in my career.

With my second album, eOne Music really wanted me to rock it up a little bit.

WrestleMania was one of my greatest matches in my career.

I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a boxing ring.

I'm going in with the mentality that I'm going to win. If you don't go in there thinking that, you've already beat yourself.

I know who Asuka is, I've seen her work in Japan and NXT. She is incredibly talented.

I had the desire to be the best in the world.

I would love to work with Charlotte Flair.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Sasha Banks stood out. She had tons of personality. I thought she was really good in a sense. I liked her sass and personality.

I can't say that I never will or would go back to the WWE. I honestly never intended on leaving until I retired. However we don't choose our destiny. We just live it.

I didn't want to be Trish Stratus, I didn't want to be Lita, but I wanted to be on their level and to be seen in people's eyes at that level.