My role model was my GRANDFATHER. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how SUCCESSFUL you are you have a responsibility to HELP OTHERS.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, STATE government still operates on an obsolete 1970S MODEL. We have a TYPEWRITER government in an Internet age.

I'd GONE to MANHATTAN to BECOME a MODEL.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the TYPICAL MODEL seems a little BROKEN to me.

I LOVE Jessica Chastain. I love her; she's AMAZING, and she's such a good actress, and she's been nominated for OSCARS, and she's just a BIG ROLE model to me. I love her.

I was hooked on aviation, MADE model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too MUCH. But then World War II came ALONG and CHANGED all that.

I reflected much on that VAIN desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in ORDER to be a CHRISTIAN. I have now, THOUGHT I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of CHRISTIANITY.

The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're GIVING $5m out to 20 DIFFERENT people, HOPING one of them will be a HIT. They don't really care if it's you.

One of the biggest LESSONS that we hope to model for several folks, including some of the YOUNG women of color who come to me, is the VALUE of understanding your worth, standing up, and DEMANDING the best for yourself and not taking less.

In the 1980s and 1990s, radical CHANGE in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher put the brakes on GOVERNMENT planning and ushered in a new free-market supply-side era and a two-decade boom. That model has been ABANDONED in the new century. This MUST be reversed.

If you're a MODEL, you're SUPPOSED to KNOW how to WALK, aren't you?

I THINK the best thing that I can do is be myself. I don't know about being a ROLE model; I think placing that sort of TITLE on myself is too MUCH. It's trying to be this thing that puts loads of pressure on SOMETHING.

I want to be ROLE model for PEOPLE to be like, 'I don't need a major LABEL to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.'

Being a role model MEANS you can STAND up and FIGHT for THINGS.