I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

There's a lot that I haven't put up there since my husband passed away because then it would be grief everyday. I have to fight within myself at times and ask, 'how do I go through the grief and find a light, even a glimmer of it?'

Bethann Hardison has been my collaborator, my closest friend, we've gone through starting businesses, losing businesses, kids, divorces, marriages, and she was my maid of honor when I married my husband, David Bowie. And she's still such a part of my life. This is the person when it's totally dark, outside and inside, this is the person I would call.

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.