When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.

Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Hope is joy.

Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.