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

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

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

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

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

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

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!

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

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

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

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

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

Rather be dead than cool.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

My life is my argument.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

If I hadn’t been a woman, I’d be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I’d be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I’d be like Ru Paul.

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.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

As we’ve seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities – and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

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’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.