I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

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.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

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

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

Affluence means influence.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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

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.

Fashion breaks my heart.

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‚C’mon, Tiger!‘

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

I like to look good, my friend.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

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

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

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

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.