Lauren Conrad

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.

I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

Whenever someone comes up to me and says, 'I'm having trouble shopping.' I tell them to pull out their 10 favorite, most-worn pieces, then build a wardrobe around them. Those staples are going to be different for everybody.

At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.

I try to never look back at how I dressed in the first few seasons of 'Laguna Beach' because it was pretty bad... head-to-toe bad.

I think that when you have kids, it's all about them.

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

I think that it's really nice to learn that makeup is different for every person. Everyone has a different feature on their face that they like to show off.