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I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that's harder than others.

I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

When you're in New York City or Boston or something, you feel surrounded by cities and by culture.

I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.