I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.

Don't be afraid to walk away from things that are just not right for you.

Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.