It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice.

If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

I'm as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

There are no truths. Only stories.

I think business is the same as tennis. You have to have the love, that helps, or else it's just too much pressure to be able to keep up with.