We're all works of art in progress.

I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today I am in a territory that business considers unmarketable: age and white hair. Slowly, however, I started to own that territory little by little because I stood up for age.

The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.

We're all works of art in progress.