“All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents’ wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.”

I’m lucky that I have my family, I’m lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I’d want to feel the energy of being on stage. I’ve always found that very interesting.

I was raised in church. I was brought up in that life, and I think that it’s very important for everybody to be in touch with their spirituality and to have a relationship with God.

I think the most expensive thing I’ve bought thus far is my Rolex.

I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.

Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don’t, then they are lying.

Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it’s a legacy that should be kept alive. In the future, it’s something I really want.

My style kind of differs – sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes I want to be dressed up and very chic and look proper. But I don’t ever believe in overdoing it for day-to-day style.

You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

I wasn’t bullied by the mean girls in high school. I’m just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.

I love New York. It’s hard to explain, but it’s the energy of the city. It’s not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

For me, I like to be a little bit tomboy but still look like a lady. Pretty tough. Or really, really, really pretty.

I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he’s so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.

I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

I would never pose topless.

I love making shorts out of jeans, or customizing denim. Basically, I like to rip and distress things… I love that look.

My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.