I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.

Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.

I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.

Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, its important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.

I'm just inspired by different people, friends around me.

Centuries had passed since the dawn of science, yet men offer riches in the name of God.

Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.