When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

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

I hate the idea of genres.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body – they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

I would say that I’m more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

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

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla – a rebel.

What makes a song last is real content from a mind that is thinking a little bit harder about certain things. A lot of artists don’t really think that hard.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I’m such a short little thing, I can’t reach my kitchen cabinets.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

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

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

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

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

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.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of ‚Hitchhiker’s,‘ and I thought, ‚No, no.‘ I didn’t want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I’d already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Art is the proper task of life.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

I’m a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don’t agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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.