I've always had that going on: "I can't," and then I do, so the voice says, "Well, that was an exception!" It's a tug-of-war between two voices: the one who knows she can and the one who's scared she can't.

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I've always had an involved imagination.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.