What I want for Christmas is to be a Japanese pop star. [Laughs] Santa can't exactly put that under the tree, but I'm hoping that some magic will happen overseas.
Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.
I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.
I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.
I'm a first-generation Canadian.
I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.
I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an enemy.
For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.