I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.

Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.

The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.

In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

I'm no Method actor. I've tried staying in character, and it's just exhausting.

I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.

I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.

When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.

When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.

As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.

I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.

I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.

I never really thought about modelling. It wasn't something I ever wanted to do. I used to always be so angry about modelling.

I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.

It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.

I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!

Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.

I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

When I first started modeling, they used to bleach my eyebrows all the time.

I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.

At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!

As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.

I love red or deep purple lips for events.

Embrace your weirdness!

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

I'd like to be curvier.

I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.

Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.

I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

I love the free spirit in London.

Fashion is a completely international business.

Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.

Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.

I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.