I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

My denim jacket had 'I love GNR' and 'I love AC/DC' written all over it, but I always came back to swing.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.

I enjoy being a girl.

You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him.

I'm a pleaser. That's my character.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.

Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.

I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.