"I don't love tennis today but I'm here," she said. "I can't live without it ? there's a difference between not loving something and not being able to live without it."
Williams said her ambition now is to find a balance between playing and other pursuits. "I just want to be able to do other things that I'm doing and expand on that. I think that helps keep my motivation up," she said.
"I'm feeling good. For me it's all about motivation as opposed to my skill or anything now. Everywhere I go is going to be really special for me and for the fans. It's going to be a forum where I'm really excited to play there.
"That's one of the reasons I wanted to come to Brisbane, because I've never been here and I felt like I had fans here."
Williams, who has won 13 grand slam singles titles, explained that she took the latter part of 2011 off because she had become tired of the sport.
"I've taken some of the rust off but I have tons of room for improvement and I look forward to doing that," Williams said.
Former world No 1 Ana Ivanovic breezed into the second round with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Austrian Tamira Paszek.
Ivanovic raced through the first set then recovered from a slight wobble in the second to wrap up the match in 79 minutes.
"I really felt I played well and applied a lot of things that I have worked on," the 24-year-old Serb said. "Still, there is room for improvement but it is the first match [of the year] and I'm very, very happy to be through."
Ivanovic next plays Belgium's Kim Clijsters in a mouthwatering second-round clash.
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