"People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic."

"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."

"Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve."

"I have a very vivid imagination."

"I was shaped by my mistakes."

"As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is."

"I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled."

"Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted."

"My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976."

"I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way."

"I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft."

"I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy."

"I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age."

"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."

"But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely."

"I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York."

"Without gay men, I am nothing."

"I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample."

"I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down."

"And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut."

"I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make."

"Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections."

"I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world."

"In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything."

"Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present."

"Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day."

"I find the light and work it, work it, work it."

"Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey."

"What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!"