The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

Be completely true to yourself and you'll be happy.

My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see what it sees on the iPhone. Great fun. I fly it outside in Portugal. It's wonderful to oversee gardens.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.