I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself rather than empowering your past.

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

Anorexia you starve yourself. Bulimia you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons take a step back and ask yourself 'What's up.'

When I want comfort food I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates but especially those. You can eat them and because they're so light you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

Instead of going out to dinner buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy it's more important to make yourself feel good.

I tell my students it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see who's very far away who's a different color who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.