One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.

I love what I do, and I only want more. I love the whole process. I love designing, I love figuring out how to make the clothes happen, I love the ad campaigns.

People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.

Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.

The quest for knowledge and wisdom is true connection to divinity.

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist.

It’s better to wear out than rust out.

I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

Most people in life, give up too early.

Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.