Sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.

Every time I wake up I have this huge dreadlock in the back, and I don't know why. It's not like I sleep like a maniac or anything. It gets knots out really easy, and it's handy.

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

I don't really like the whole pancake look.

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier — unfortunately.

I can have an androgynous quality.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like to look like Karen Elson - she looks good pale. I feel like I look a bit washed out.

It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan. I try to eat fruit and be healthy. If I'm feeling a bit sickly, I usually get a good spray tan.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

I like to keep some coloring tools around to draw vistas.

Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.