I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I'm so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.