In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

Every five years, I decide to learn something new.

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

I like your manly bravado," she said. "Do it some more.

This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.