My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

When everyone wanted to be successful, I wanted to be resourceful so that I could help everyone to be successful.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.

Humility is all about being truthful and honest.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.