"I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I'm vulnerable too and each one of us is."

"I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher."

"I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that."

"I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century."

"I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development."

"I think most musicians do like to have a laugh."

"I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!"

"I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them."