The old Lena is dead..

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there..

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about..

Music gave me something to do in my life..

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?.

Eat right and you can’t go wrong..

I don't like overt traditionalism..

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do..

I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

I've aged, but grown up? No..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the co….