Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice.

If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.

Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.

The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

Talent imitates, genius steals.

When you hug someone you want it to be a masterpiece of connection, the way the button on his coat will leave the imprint of a planet in my cheek when I walk away.

Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.