You need to work at the craft of songwriting, but not only the craft. When I see people working both on themselves and the craft, and they combine those things. . . I just go, That's just fabulous.
So much of design is context.
You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.
What inspires me is what I see people wearing on the streets of the world from New York to London and beyond. I get my ideas and inspiration from pounding the pavement all over the world. Today, fashion is dictated by individual style. To me, the fashion of the future is anything that a young guy or girl feels good wearing as long as it's put together in the right way.
I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.
Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.
I'm a New York story.
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.
That. s what Jazz music is all about. We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz. No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.