I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

There is a secret hippie within me.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

You live your life without realizing these things until you take yourself away from the usual stuff, even for a brief moment…only then do you see your life in a different perspective.

Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.

God is always the first one there when we fall, but most of us don’t look up.

Refuse to be average.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.