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

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.

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.

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

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

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.