It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give life.

If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway thereto turning heads.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.

Underwear is such an emotional thing.

The birth of my sons. The birth of new emotions...what a privilege. What a blessing.

I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.

I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense.

Wherever I am, I think it's my show.

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

I'm pretty relaxed on what people should be able to do as long as they're not hurting anybody else.

I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.