No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful.

The greasier, the better.

'Fabulosity' is to get up when you've been kicked down, and it's not to go after who kicked you down.

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.

Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.