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.

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.

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery.

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

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.

Try to get inside the skins of others. Think how they feel, how they react, and guide your own conduct by that.

Fear is only a four letter word.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

Race is a very sensitive subject.

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?