You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.

You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.

Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They're meditative. I have three a day.