I struggled a lot with my 8-meter last season. I only scored on about 10 percent of them. It's something I've been working on for a year now. I wanted to show Jill that I could make my 8-meter shot now.

It was important for us to come out and put two wins together. It allows us to build momentum for our game on Thursday, which is probably our biggest opportunity of the season.

My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

On Christina Aguilera: She couldn't be in the Kittens, no way! Not with those outfits. Her stylist wants to have a word.