Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Always do whatever’s next.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

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.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

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.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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.

To create something you must be something.

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.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

What is past is prologue.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

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!

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Never regret what you don’t write.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.