While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it..

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel.

There has always been a correlation between money and art..

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….

In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh o….

I think there is going to be a whole market and we'll start to see hip-hop jewelry regularly in jewelry auctions around the world. Therefore, anybody….

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 ….

In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a piece of furniture in your home. Bu….

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 his….

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..

I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being….

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery..

I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the asce….

Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort ….

My alter ego does not look in too great a mood today..

I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it..

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….