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.

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.

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

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

Work harder to become better person. There is no guarantee how long we are going to be here. Enjoy life.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.