I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

Every five years, I decide to learn something new.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

Real problems can't be fixed with a motivational poster, a cute quote or a pat on the back.

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

No one knows what they can do until they try.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I always love China, especially the old China.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

I've always loved being at the eye of the storm creatively with people that I find exciting and glamorous. So sometimes I got sidetracked in my career and maybe I would have done more TV or film.