I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.

I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration.

I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

For me, it is exciting to see a woman take a chance and wear something out of the ordinary.

Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?

You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.