To me, jewelry is a natural progression and there is something so meaningful and magical about creating that one of a kind, special piece.

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

Seeing my ideas come to reality. Seeing how happy it makes other people to wear them. Seeing them on other people makes me the happiest.

I'm always interested in collaborating with designers. I love Gaultier. I know that's kind of a high hope!

Luxury is something that makes you feel beautiful. I have a vintage silk kimono that definitely makes me feel beautiful and luxurious.

The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

I'm always inspired by the hidden treasures, unique personalities and New York's overall charm.

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

I like slang words, straight to the point. I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart.

No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.

Don't try fixing something that is already broken in the first place.

Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.