Quotes About Trendsetter

There's no one more supportive of each other than me and Nat. We go to each other's premieres and say, 'My brother's the best,' and, 'I liked my brother before it was cool.'

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

A fashion icon to me is somebody who has, the first person who struck you and introduced you to the world of fashion, and that person is my mom.

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

You stayed up on the record business by knowing who was doing what. You watched the Phil Spectors. That's what told you what to do, what was hot.

I feel like there's not enough clothing out there to show our personality and just to be comfortable and to be fashion-forward and to be a trendsetter. There are a lot of clothes out there for the straight-size woman to be able to show that, but in the plus-size industry, I don't feel like it's there just yet.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.

My cut is blunt and futuristic, and Nicki Minaj started wearing that bob on her head after she came to my show, so at the end of the day, I know what I do, and I know what I possess, and I know who I am. I'm a trendsetter. The biggest form of flattery is imitation, so I'm flattered.

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

We've weathered a few storms before, like when social networking was considered a fad. I think that we have a track record of being on to something big.

I in fact started doing theatre before a lot of film people started doing it and I started my website before anybody else.

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

I'll tell you who doesn't get enough credit, Soulja Boy. He was the first one to do something, post it, yank it down, and sell more records because of it.

I'm not one of these average reality people that are permanently doing Instagram posts, I break the mould, I break the Internet.

I consider myself a trendsetter.

I created the Soundcloud big bang; you already know what's going on.