I'm always inspired by the hidden treasures, unique personalities and New York's overall charm.

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

Seeing my ideas come to reality. Seeing how happy it makes other people to wear them. Seeing them on other people makes me the happiest.

I'm always interested in collaborating with designers. I love Gaultier. I know that's kind of a high hope!

Luxury is something that makes you feel beautiful. I have a vintage silk kimono that definitely makes me feel beautiful and luxurious.

The leather vests are work vests, supposed to look like factory workers. They're actually the vests we use in the studio when we make jewelry.

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.

To me, jewelry is a natural progression and there is something so meaningful and magical about creating that one of a kind, special piece.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

You scientists are the worst photographers in the world and you need the best photographers in the world and I'm the one to do it.

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

Don't ever let the viewer settle in and get ahead of you.

The Prophet was taken by the order of God to heaven, which is a prototype of all spiritual realization in Islam. But, he had a guide; Gabriel, the angel, was his guide. He took him to heaven.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.