I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.
Diamonds - that'll shut her up. . . for a minute!
Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.
I had the right to remain silent. . . but I didn't have the ability.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. . . And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.
When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
. . . . I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.
The thing that really got me about Janis the most, was how liberated she was. She stood in that power even though it was kind of that platform of blues of being completely tormented, that enabled her to just stand there and let it go at a time when woman were not doing that. . . she just came out in the completely undone, unwrapped way and I think spoke right out of a woman's soul. Directly.