I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show for the sake of the show itself, not to make money. Fashion isn't always about making money.

What I do is more than just the clothes. It's getting out whatever is inside that's screaming the loudest. I wouldn't call it therapeutic. It's not that conscious.

We have to sell the dream before we can sell the clothes

The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.

I think in black.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Music is the universe where everything is allowed

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.