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

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

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!

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven’t been in a high school for about a year. So um, it’s kinda interesting coming back, and y’know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

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

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.