Love scenes are always weird, though. They're always uncomfortable. It's all the people around who make it uncomfortable. It's not usually the actor you're working with, because they usually feel just as weird as you do!

No matter where I go I know where I came from.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.

For me, fashion is an expression of who I am right in that moment - so what you're seeing is what I'm influenced by now.

I think that's what a partnership is - you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.

When it's easy, it's great. But when something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You naturally start analyzing. It's not that you're wrong; it's that sometimes you just need to make adjustments.