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.

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.

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.

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

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.

If you persevere, stick with it, wok at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve. If you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.