I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.

I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.

I believe that if you work hard enough and do things the right way recognition will come.

I wanted to give people an experience. I wanted them to get their money's worth.

I wasn't able to afford high-end brands or any of that, so I grew up on streetwear.

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.

The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.

I want to be recognized but I don't seek it out.

Somebody once told me if you're doing what you're supposed to you don't have to force it.

Starting out is very difficult if you don't have a clientele.

I'm based in Atlanta so there weren't a lot of people to talk to about fashion because no one was really doing it on the scale that I wanted to do it. I had to do a lot of research on my own.

How strong is your desire to know the Saviour?

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

You can't stay well without telling--and living--the truth.

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

Those who think must govern those that toil.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!