I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.

There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.

I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].

Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

Each one of us is endowed with specific sacred-skill.

But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.

I also dress up as a sexy fairy.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

Where's the snow That fell the year that's fled--where's the snow?