Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

Rather be dead than cool.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I’m the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

I don’t really have a gimmick or a ‚thing.‘ I’m one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.

Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It’s like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

I dressed more like a pop star, I suppose, rather than the traditional blazer and tall trousers other players went for.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I love women with attitude.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.