I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

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

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I’m 100 percent fiction writer… I don’t want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don’t state my political messages to anybody.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‚C’mon, Tiger!‘

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

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.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.