Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of "War and Peace" is universal.

Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child.