Blanka Vlasic

I realized that health is the most important thing and that all the other things come with time if you are devoted enough.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

People like scandals.

I've never been in a competition before, and I said I'm going to go. I think - I just love to sing.

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.