Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging.

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

I don't like workouts that make you bulky.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.

I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

I have no regrets. I've got my health.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.

The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.