It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

A good night's sleep is always the best way to wake up and go to work.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

Don't be afraid to express yourself through fashion!

I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.

The Black Parade is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

You can wait for things to happen for you or you can make things happen for you.

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

Three hot chicks for three hot chicks." "THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!

Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.