Quotes About Trends

I love tuning into Radio 1 on a Friday night after training and hearing the new stuff.

Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is.

In Presley's time, you didn't dare not to be a fan of his, because you were part of a club. Now you can say I prefer Billy Joel or Tina Turner or someone else. It's all fractionalized.

Ever since we published the first Apple report, we've had some other brands turning more proactive.

Whether experimenting with the latest trends during my teenage years or turning to quality designer pieces to show off my more refined style today, I've always turned to places like T.J.Maxx to find those pieces that are truly me.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing.

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.

Some of the 'worst' red carpet looks of all time, it turns out, were really just ahead of their time.

Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

There's so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.

I've read a lot of fiction from writers just starting out, and the dialogue is a little bit forced, or it's almost too teenager-y, or too slang-y or putting too much technology or trends in there. I try to stay pretty trend-neutral. I try not to mention too many current bands or current TV shows.

TV shows about TV were taboo for a while.

I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

Lots of people do that silly tweeting.

The future is in photos for social media. More and more people are not reading, so I try to attach a photo to most Tweets.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.