I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.

It's nice to be chosen, to be that girl you have been searching for all your life.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

You should have a dream and absolutely go for it. Don't let anybody say you can't do it.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.