“For work I get so dolled up that it’s nice to wear boyfriend jeans and a sweater.”

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

I don’t sit around thinking about my titles and roles; I just do what feels right.

For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.

I like it when a man puts thought into the kind of restaurant we’re going to. That doesn’t mean it needs to be fancy – some of the best meals of my life have been having a taco on a street corner.

I love getting into people’s brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.

My dad’s a lighting director. Growing up in Hollywood, I was around the entertainment industry all the time. I knew I’d end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.

If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?

I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches – I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works.

As I’ve gotten older, I like longer dresses, but my legs come up to my ears, and I’m not very tall, so when I wear a short skirt,I’ve got to be really conscious.

My mom is a yoga instructor: 100% black with dreadlocks.

When I get ready to go out, it’s half hour and we’re out of the door. I don’t want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.

I pride myself in figuring out how to elevate a dish with a little preserved lemon or, then, a sprinkle of Maldon salt.

My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.

You have to take care of yourself so you can manage the workload of a very, very full plate.

My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.

I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

First appearance deceives many.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all. How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

I grew up dying my hair with Kool-Aid. I used to switch my hair up every day just to make myself look and feel good.

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C.