Ronnie Radke Quotes

For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world.

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

I even have shoes that don't fit. They're just so cool, I wanted to have them.

No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.

Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

I'm not against people buying clothes; I think clothes are wonderful, and I'm very materialistic myself - but there's a way of finding a compromise. I just think we can buy less and pay more, to make sure people aren't being exploited.

It's not that I don't believe in creativity and innovation and new ideas, and the creativity that comes with fashion, which I really respect. But one of my biggest concerns is just how cheap we expect everything to be.

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much.

People recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns.

I love fashion. I shop like a 16-year old girl. Sneakers. That's what I spend money I don't have on.

I don't over-gift. I don't inundate my child with a lot of things.

I know it's not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, 'That's the end of that.'

Seeing so much of the same thing suppresses the desire to buy.

Clothing is so much a part of who we are; that's our way of expressing ourselves.

It's sad, the enslavement of the black underclass to designer labels - we're an age that cares more about Versace than Vermeer.