I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

There has always been a correlation between money and art.

My alter ego does not look in too great a mood today.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.

If you speak to young kids anywhere in the world, hip-hop is the music that they like to listen to more than any other type, so the influence simply cannot be underestimated.

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

In the early '80s, I was blown away when I began to hear some of the earliest hip-hop songs, and I'm fascinated by all the permutations the genre has gone through.

What I admire about Snoop Dogg is his longevity. I mean, he's been around for a long time and I think he's as good as he's ever been.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

If You Are Not Getting Any Kind of Negative Feedback, Than You Probably Are Not Working Hard Enough.

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

Without changing one's self, without peace in one's self, world peace is not possible.

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.