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

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.

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

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.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

I got the part [in the Shampoo]. But it was this very unpleasantly rivalry tug.

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

Only With words and people and love you move at ease.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range . . . come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River . . .

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.