No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

Pink is the navy blue of India.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.

I loathe narcissism but I approve of vanity.

The only real elegance is in the mind If youve got that the rest really comes from it.

Its not about the dress you wear but its about the life you lead in the dress.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

Red is the great clarifier bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

We've all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.

I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

I have no human feelings.

I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.

In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the exit. I had never been in that kind of situation when we weren't on tour and there was a whole bunch of security. I'm a little dude, and out of nowhere to have 50 or 60 people come running towards me when I'm jut with my friend, it was kind of scary.

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

With TOMS, I found a way to create sustainable giving and consistently help those who are in need.

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

It was a minimalist opening offer. It was far from what anyone in our group would expect to be adequate.

Some directors want to make superhero films. That's what gets them off, and they love it, and they love sci-fi. I prefer putting my hands into non-fiction.

I'm a big zombie buff.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.