From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.

It took a while to grow the confidence to say, 'This is who I am, take it or leave it.'

Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

I know what I want, I know where I'm going and I'm happy with what I am.

I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.

I never plan tomorrow because I don’t even know what I’m doing today.

Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.

I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

Your mind is a reservoir of potential

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.

Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.