I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in ’87 or ’88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. We’ve never had that before."

I've never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt.

I have no regrets. I've got my health.