Quotes

I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.

My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.

New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.

Every villain needs her story told.

I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.

'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'

I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.

'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.