“The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.”

“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

“An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.”

“You can not take something that an artist created during the creative process, and then discarded, and say it is an authentic work of that artist.”

“Given a chance, most children will do the right thing. I was hoping to make them aware that sometimes all it takes is a nice word to really make someone else’s day. Consequently, a thoughtless remark can really hurt someone’s feelings.”

“Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.”

“Anything worth doing can be done by someone else.”

“I think the main thing is that I very rarely recognise the actual interview in print. To me, it's like being painted by an artist. And then you see the picture, and they've painted someone else.”

“Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.”