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.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny’s Child’s, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Philosophy is the highest music.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

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.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

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

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

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

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I’m saying, and I track it.

What we live by we die by.

God created man, but I could do better.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.