I wanted to give people an experience. I wanted them to get their money's worth.

I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.

I believe that if you work hard enough and do things the right way recognition will come.

I wasn't able to afford high-end brands or any of that, so I grew up on streetwear.

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.

The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.

I want to be recognized but I don't seek it out.

Somebody once told me if you're doing what you're supposed to you don't have to force it.

I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.

Starting out is very difficult if you don't have a clientele.

I'm based in Atlanta so there weren't a lot of people to talk to about fashion because no one was really doing it on the scale that I wanted to do it. I had to do a lot of research on my own.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.