If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one

The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.

I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.