That's kind of the mystique If you [post your outfit] on Instagram all of the time, I'm going to see a bunch of people walking around looking like Shump.

You're not going to find me in something someone else is wearing. Unless, of course, he's a very swaggy individual.

I don't want the attention. I want the respect.

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.

I can do whatever I want.

I always wanted to dress up like Darth Maul.So I designed my own kilt.

[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"

There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

I don't have a stylist. That, in a way, is cheating. Put five players in a thrift store and see who has the best style in the end, and then you'll see who has real style.

[ Stylists] are putting you in a style that most people are in because it's the trend. So you might have on the same outfit as everyone else.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...

What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift?

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Make love your weapon to overcome any evil

We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

Being different is good; embrace it.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one