Lily Cole

“It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.”

“I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.”

“The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.”

“When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.”

“I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.”

“Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.”

“Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.”

“I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.”

“There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.”

“The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.”

“Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.”

“In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.”

“I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.”

“I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.”

“As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.”

“I always used to love couture because it was more theatrical than the runways. The runways always felt more like part of the machine.”

“I've always gone after fears and tried to stifle them by doing them. It is daunting, but it's more rewarding.”

“I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.”

“I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.”

“I don't personally follow trends; I don't even like the idea of trends. I think it's kind of absurd that you have to change every six months, so I always try and buy things that hopefully I'll like forever, and resonate with me.”