Model Quotes

In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!

Compost makes houseplants very happy.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

I'm a bit of a groupie.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

I have done a lot of theater.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.