But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
I was anorexic. I was in hell. Now I eat what I want, and I'm still a model. So you see, it works.
Focus and having energy is the most important goal when choosing my activities and how I treat myself.
There's been a lot of focus on my body, but it's taught me to appreciate myself no matter where I am.
Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.
Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.
I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera.
one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?
I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.
The future isn’t ahead of us. It has already happened.
To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution in times of uncertainty and insecurity. To be patriotic is to speak up against the powerful in defense of the weak and the voiceless. To be patriotic is to be willing to pay the price to preserve our freedoms, dignity, and rights. To be patriotic is to challenge the abuses of the PATRIOT Act.