I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to listen.

I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone else in the room, 'Dave Eggers.'

I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.

Whatever one thinks of Twitter, the Friday Reads hashtag is kind of a cool tradition.

Working for CNN, you help set the agenda for decision makers and industry leaders simply by doing your job. What the network covers and how we cover it affects people. I am not naive enough to believe I work in some 'pure' news vacuum.

My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.

I have never planned my career here in Bollywood, so planning to do Hollywood films is a distant thing. You have to see how things come.

I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.