You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

Let our children be taught love love love.

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire when I was growing up, listening to names like Lord Finesse.

I don't gossip about myself.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.

Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

I think on stage theres a side of me that comes out thats very fierce and confident.