Jerry Hall

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.

When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.

When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and dress up as a mermaid for the cover of his album 'Siren.' It was love at first sight.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.