Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

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.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

I’m never nervous.

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

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven’t had the right kind of love in their lives.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I’m not a sheep.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I’d really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

The stylish kids on the street, they’re the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they’re doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it’s like, why not go directly to the source?

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Art is the proper task of life.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

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

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that – of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.