I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

Movies will finally reflect the world we live in, not some weird dinosaur reality.

I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

One honest voice is louder than a crowd.

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.