I'm always interested in collaborating with designers. I love Gaultier. I know that's kind of a high hope!

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

Seeing my ideas come to reality. Seeing how happy it makes other people to wear them. Seeing them on other people makes me the happiest.

Luxury is something that makes you feel beautiful. I have a vintage silk kimono that definitely makes me feel beautiful and luxurious.

The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

To me, jewelry is a natural progression and there is something so meaningful and magical about creating that one of a kind, special piece.

I'm always inspired by the hidden treasures, unique personalities and New York's overall charm.

You can become great by multiplying yourself through time conversion into different products but that will only be possible if you understand the value of time.

A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.

If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life would be transformed.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.

I'm addicted to chocolate. I used to snort cocoa.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

You don't have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles You carry within you the power to make the world better.