I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

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

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

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.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

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.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

I am fearless.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

I’m never nervous.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

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!

Freedom is relative.

The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

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

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

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.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

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 don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Obviously black matches with everything.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

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

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

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

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She’s sort of become my fairy godmother.

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.

The fashion I’ve acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I’ve collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.