Heidi Klum Quotes

Modeling in Europe at the beginning of my career was pretty hard, with the constant traveling and uncertainty as to where I was going to be from one day to the next.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

Fashion can be a very fickle lady, especially when it comes to models - fashion likes to turn on its own.

Modeling for a year taught me a lot. I got very involved in the fashion industry and met a bunch of people who I admired.

The music industry has become so unpredictable. And I think people know that if someone has a Number One song, it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll have several ones after.

You can't plan success with a creative field. So I enjoy it while it's here, and I know it won't be forever. Maybe one day I'll have to go back to flipping burgers, but for now I'm going to enjoy the cool things.

Modelling is a bit baffling when you're 18. I just thought, 'Brilliant - I get paid lots of money to walk down a runway.' I didn't think I was signing up to be a poster girl for anything.

The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that have to do with it, so there's no way that it can't affect you, and it just kind of makes you think with more of a fashion edge.

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.

Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.

I want to be the next Gisele Bundchen . Everything she does, who she is, what she's done, she's just amazing.

One day you're in. The next day you're out.

Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.

Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people. . . so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

Modeling was something that fell into my lap. It was fun to travel and make money, but it always seemed like a hobby.

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.