I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.