Bria Vinaite Quotes

My favorite sneakers, growing up, were always the Air Force 1 and the Air Max line. I started collecting when I was 13 or 14 years old.

Of course, when I was younger I always wanted to have the newest Air Force 1s but my budget wasn't too good back then! I always stuck with the white or black AF1s.

You were cool if you had on a pair of Air Force 1s. It's still a staple for me while on tour.

I'm super into sneakers! I'm totally addicted. Just from playing ball all the time. I was always looking for the freshest kicks on the court.

I have a weird obsession with wearing not just fashion sneakers, but actual sneakers that have bounce, because I want to feel like I'm in an active state.

My first pair of Jordans, I wore them all the time. I would wear them to school; I always had them on.

I love Air Force Ones. That's the shoe I grew up with in Philadelphia. My older brothers got me wearing them and I just stuck with them. Everyone in the neighborhood used to wear them. It's retro. It's tradition. That's me, old school.

Some New York bands you'll see rocking Ones or Dunks and things like that, but it is weird that the sneakerhead thing has become so massive. Personally, I think it's really silly.

I wasn't a big Air Force 1 person until I started buying custom ones.

Adidas shelltoes, I always loved them.

I am a sneakerhead, and I grew up a sneakerhead.

From the beginning of time, all I've ever done is hoop, and this culture of sneakers has always been a part of it.

As a kid, I loved Air Force Ones - but they were so expensive. I always had to save up for ages to get them. Now I can call the Nike guy and be like 'can you send me ten pairs?' and they'll be here the same day.

I could wear Jordan 1's every day with anything. So many different flavors.

That whole era of Chris Webber with Nike was, to me, the golden era. Everybody was getting their own signature shoe.

Collecting shoes is my biggest hobby. I've got a couple hundred pairs of Nikes and Jordans. I got a lot of hats, too. I like to play basketball, but nothing competition wise.

The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

I have a lot of Jordans, a lot of Nikes, a lot of Blazers.

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.

I'm obsessed with neon sneakers.

I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.

I like Jeremy Scott, and he has some really dope sneakers.

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

I'm a sneaker head. You'll find more sneakers than heels in my closet.

The thing that got us going early was the running boom. And then, I think, we rode the Jordan bit, which then kind of crossed us over into the pop culture.