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

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

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

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

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

Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that’s me.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‚What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?‘ And, ‚How does creativity apply across the board?‘

I don’t want followers.

Obviously black matches with everything.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I like a colorful sock. I’m a sock man.

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

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

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.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

I think my style is probably more of a classic look.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

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

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

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.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

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.

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