CAMERON RUSSELL

Modelling is an incredible platform.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

I am insecure... because I have to think about what I look like every day.

Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?

The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.

I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.

We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.

My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.

If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

I'm a dork!

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.