Nightlife is something I don't think directly affects my designs, but it's a great tool for me, growing up in London. Nearly all my friends, I have m….

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Do for yourself, for no one else will..

I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. ….

You don't get nothing and like it..

When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was….

When you start somewhere, you've started..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

When I was growing up, I would listen to a different album almost every night. I would do the full album experience before I went to bed and that's h….

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we l….

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work..

Politics is cyclical..

The public makes a hit..

It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and ra….

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were ….

When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women may look at those ima….

It's not how much you make, it's how much you save..

I was raised on The Beatles. I loved Led Zeppelin growing up. Judy Garland. Doris Day. That's where things began. I took a lot from the '60s and mayb….

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault….

Nobody tells me f-k all!.