The truth was, there was never a connection between Iraq and Osama Bin Laden. There were no weapons of mass destruction, either.
There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people.
I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.
I need to just keep training hard and getting all the information from the coaches and the players.
No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.
With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.
Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.