I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.
I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.
I wish I could be a model, and then I could have this fantastic body and parade around and get paid for it.
I kind of felt like maybe I didn't have what it took to look like a supermodel and wear high heels all the time and my nails.
I can remember years ago, when Kate Moss first came around and there were so many articles. Everyone was saying that it was heroin chic - that she was a waif, that she was anorexic. But Kate would eat just as much as anybody I knew - the media had just turned her into this thing. It must be really, really hard when you're the object of that.
If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don't know if I would be the algorithm. I've always been OK with that. I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.
I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.
Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.
Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.
I'm the male Kate Moss.
Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.
The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.
Don't get me wrong: 'America's Next Top Model' is fantastic. They've done 20 seasons, so they've obviously done something right. But I think what ensures that the winner of 'The Face' will become a working model is the prize - a year-long contract with a cosmetics company is huge.
Kate Moss, for example - she's never given a lot of interviews. She stays so mysterious. Nobody knows who she is, really.
In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
Have I dated a supermodel? Of course not. I'd look ridiculous.
There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.
Being surrounded by supermodels' bodies was triggering to me.
So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.
I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.
If I do something, I want to be the best. And one of the best things you can be is a Victoria's Secret Angel; for me, that's always been a goal.
John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'
I'd never planned on being a model.
For my very first September issue, I put Naomi Campbell on the cover. She was wearing this orange Anne Klein sequin suit - it would probably look incredibly '80s today.
I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'
