Quotes About Style

I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry.

I have never in my life been the type to give things away. Sorry, just not my style.

It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.

I prefer to wear big earrings because then you're sorted jewelry-wise.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It's dance meets hip-hop.

'Crimson' is written in a very particular style, and it's very precise in the way it graduates into a gothic romance. The souls that will connect with it will connect deeply.

Everyone has said I got my own sound.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

Neo-soul is really less about a sound than it is about a look, in my opinion.

Of course, if you're gonna make a rap song, you're gonna want to sound like Melle Mel.

In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.

It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.

My best feature would have to be my hair. That sounds so cliche - but my hair is like a separate entity.

I did a lot of ramp modelling in South Africa and Hong Kong, when models were free to dance and walk on the ramp.

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.

My drag is that real Southern dragged-out style of drag.

Yes, I do consider the city I will be in when I decide which dress to wear. I get a little edgier in more metropolitan cities and a little fluffier in Southern cities. Having said that, I chose a lavender cupcake of a dress for the start of the book parties in New York City by Rafael Cennamo.

I think my mother and grandmother had style even though we're humble Southern people.

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

I'd always just look at Chanel and Kate Spade and think how incredible these brands were.