I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

Believe in yourself and believe in magic.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all.

Some people have style without even knowing it!

I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.

I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.

My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.

A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - its more personal, and your friends generate it.

I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

I think we have people that are not even leaving their comfort zone to engage people with the gospel. I don't know if you can be overzealous, but you can be unwise in the way you do it.

Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.