I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses.

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing.

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

The best way to make dream come true is to wake up.

You either know fashion or you don't.

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

You can’t really worry too much…about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

The only fear that builds character, is the fear of God.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.

The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.