I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I just want to keep writing music.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

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

Rap was my drug.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I’m a writer first and a singer second.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

I only act from my heart.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

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

I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it’s really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform – or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

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

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn’t the case.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

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?‘

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

There is spontaneity to my work.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.