The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.

The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

I hate trends, but I love fashion.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

If you want to make the best of yourself, you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.

The best creates, the rest follows

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

He who needs riches least, enjoys riches most.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.