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

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

The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over stitches, because it had been repaired so many times. Once I put it on, she told me that it belonged to an actual slave woman. My heart just stopped. Each one of the stitches had a story, you know. Just recognizing this period I was going to be dancing with was a "come to Jesus" moment.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.