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“You sort of have to become what you're wearing.”
“I only entertain very close friends.”
“Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.”
“I love what I do, I love my job.”
“I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.”
“Fashion is more about feel than science.”
“For me, nothing is given.”
“My ideal travel companions are my family.”
“I answer questions the best I can.”
“Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.”
“When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.”
“It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.”
“Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.”
“I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.”
“Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.”
“Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.”
“The keyboard is my journal.”
“Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.”
“I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.”
“I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.”