J. A. London Quotes

If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.

Style is joyful if you allow yourself to have joy.

You have to look in the mirror and see that what you're wearing looks good on the body you have now. Wearing a larger size is just wearing a larger size.

You can't fit your clothes well and look your best if you don't know what you're working with.

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

I believe every PERSON is beautiful. What you do with that beauty, how you develop it, is up to you.

I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.

Never let a trend get in the way of creating a great outfit for yourself.

Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink.

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

I'm not as snarky as I used to be.

Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.

Your personal style should evolve with age. To say you want the same style at 25 as at 45 is a mistake.

Not one person I know isn't concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.

Style is all about your individual sense of how you want to present yourself to the world. It's about loving what you've got instead of wishing for what you're not.

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

It leaves a good legacy to have five records.

My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.

When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.

I wanted to only collab with women for Lovers Holiday.

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.

I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses - people recognize me now.

I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.

The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.

I like to go to the airport looking stylish - you never know who youll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking.

Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

Im a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

You should treat your body like a canvas.

You gotta learn your body, how clothes fit on you.

The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month.

When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night.

Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!

The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

To me, my style is comfortable.

I think its more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.

My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions.