I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.
I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.
I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.
I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.
I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now.
I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this - to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
I don't care what the world says. My Bible says you can't live a continuous lifestyle of sin and be a Christian.
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
There is absolutely no reward on earth for being a Christian. You get it only on payday in Heaven, not while you are still working for Jesus on earth.
My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
