"So much of design is context."

"I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90."

"No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing."

"For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums."

"Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car."

"If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country."