When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.

Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.