“Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it’s comforting when you’re near someone and you recognize their smell.”

I’m passionate about anything I align myself with. You want to talk about chocolate chip cookies? I’m not going to open a chocolate chip cookie store, but I will talk your ear off about it.

I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time.

If I could pass along anything that my mother or my sisters taught me, I feel like my kids would be very well off.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never yours to begin with.

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they’re going to the store and they’ve got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves,

One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I’m not wearing make-up, if my hair’s not done, if I’m walking around in pyjamas – I still put my fragrance on. I will brush my teeth and put on my perfume.

Design, whether it’s on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It’s mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns – elements that you wouldn’t often put together in an interesting way.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

I’ll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching clothes, shoes and hats to go pick up my brother from school.

My anonymity is something I treasure.

You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn’t a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life – but yet, it is so rewarding.

I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.

It is hard that people don’t just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.

Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.

I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I’ve never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.

Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

I think maybe the English don’t want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others – because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.