[in People magazine, 1/11/93] Even I don`t look like Cindy Crawford in the morning.

The thing I like about my body is that it`s strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It`s a well functioning machine.

Even in normal life, I`m not the skinniest model.

[on her return to the runway for Fashion Week in 2002] The other models looked at me with a little too much awe like, "Oh my God, I`ve been your biggest fan for over 20 years!" And I`m like, "How old are you? Shut up!"

When I did `Playboy`, I got letters from women who didn`t consider it feminist to do nude photographs. I thought the whole POINT of being a feminist was that you got to make your own choices.

The only annoying thing about being recognized is the whispering. You can hear, "Is that Cindy?" And then they follow me for blocks. I wish they`d just come up and say, "Hi".

I don`t want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It`s not brain surgery.