I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember.

I always say that I'm really inspired by mistakes and things that kind of go wrong.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

my soul has shadows – nooks and crannies where griefs, like cobwebs, collect

A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only.The Twenty-first Voyage

If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.