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"I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. That's putting myself out there, maybe even more than taking my shirt off."
"For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes."
"Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect."
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
"Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath."
"Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable."
"A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress."
"I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes."
"I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow."
"In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked."
"I think that the way to have style is to accept where your body is right now, heavier or skinnier, whether you're going to change in the future and dress it as it is. The fact is you can always find clothes. It may be harder for plus sized people, I completely understand that. But I don't believe that it's impossible to dress with style."
"Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style."
"If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record."
"Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains..."
"My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes."
"As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it."
"Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing."
"If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much."
"I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me."
"Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."
