“I’ve been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the ‘hood, and everybody in the ‘hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.”

I wanted to model when I was younger.

People don’t make albums any more. It’s always about singles. I wanted to take that old-school approach.

There’s just so much out there and so much inspiration… I just want to be tasteful.

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

I’m not glorifying it at all, I’m just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it’s not that deep.

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I’m co-producing on my album; I’m hands-on with everything. I’m more than just a pretty boy: I’m an artist. I’m not saying I’m a hip-hop music artist, I’m an artiste.

Why can’t I be friends with somebody who’s gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It’s stupid.

I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can’t prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

I didn’t want to be a loser, but I didn’t want to fit in at the same time because I don’t like just being ordinary. So it’s one of those situations where I always kept my head up.

With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I’m feeling that day.

When Big Meech and everybody got indicted, hustling died. Keep it trill.

You wouldn’t take me to be a Skrillex fan, but honestly, when I’m at his shows, I get high and liquored up, and I just go in the crowd and start raving.

I’m getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

So for me, fashion was about standing out as an individual – and it helped me get the attention that most people try to get with publicity stunts or by doing other crazy things. But I just let the attention come to me naturally, and I think some of that has to do with my fashion.

I love ‘Harry Potter’ and JK Rowling – don’t laugh at me!

The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion — against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.