Tom Ford Quotes

When I see great film, I have this feeling of 'Oh, wow! Wasn't that great? Wasn't that good?' I want to do something. I want to scream and go out there and participate and embrace life.

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.

I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration.

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

I really love to set things in places that are real to me.

Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it.

I want to design clothes that I wish I could have worn when I was a teenager.

Music makes me love life, and without it, I don't know if I'd be happy.

When I design, I think about the desire someone might have for it and why. I want them to fall in love with it.

I try to stay true to my style, and I understand the foundation of my style and where it came from. But at the same time, you take that experience and learn different ways to write, different ways to turn on that creative energy.

I can write a love song or a ballad, or when I read something and it pisses me off, I know how to go in.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.