It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

Do not go into trends. Do not allow fashion take you over, choose who you want to be and what do you want to show with your clothes and lifestyle.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Don't do the things just for the sake of it. Do something extra. It makes ordinary things, extraordinary.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.