I am a very persuasive man.

I'm like the only Kiwi that can fly, I'm the one with the biggest wing.

I don't really take punishment from fights; the punishment is from the training, from my teammates.

I just want to fight and be remembered as the best, who fought everyone and beat them. Then the money, the numbers, the records, they all chase me.

I've talked about tall poppy syndrome when I see people. I used to be like, 'Why am I feeling this way? What is that person taking from me that makes me feel inadequate?' That same feeling you feel when you feel uncomfortable because people start talking about racism, lean into that feeling, don't just look away from it, because you can't pretend.

Look, I can't dim my shine just because some people feel uncomfortable.

I've never had staph in my life. Knock on wood, I never will.

The promoters in New Zealand weren't looking at me, they didn't see the potential. But when I was fighting in China they brought me over there as a journeyman so all their guys could whup up on me. Then they realised that's not gonna happen because I kept whupping up on their guys. Then they decided, 'Let's bring this guy into our team.'

I fought probably 23 or 24 times when I was over in China, in a year.

My first stadium show was in China, it was a 50,000-seat stadium. I think 40,000 showed up.

Being a big black man in China in the mainland, walking down the street, you have everyone looking at you, 'Basketball?' They don't really see a lot of us around, maybe on TV, so they're just looking.

You won't see me on TMZ shaving my hair and yelling at the camera guy.

There are a lot of sports that New Zealand does very well but MMA is a truly global sport and it's practiced in the farthest reaches of this earth.

To reach the heights of a truly global sport, in a sport as difficult as this, is a monumental achievement.

That's the beauty of this sport. We're trying to get to the same place, maybe, but we're on different paths.

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

I want to defend my belt against all the middleweights that are the biggest threats supposedly before I jump up in weight.

I never, ever deviate from my plans.

I don't want to be fighting when I don't want to fight.

It's passion; if I'm not passionate about something I'm not going to do it.

I'm a dancer, I'm an entertainer.

I'm very coachable, I listen. I have these ears and they're big for a reason.

I can hit hard, trust me.

A guy like Conor McGregor, one thing I really appreciated when he first got in the game and one thing that really inspired me was his love for fighting.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

I'd rather look to the future than to the past.

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important.

I love to be free to explore, research, and evolve.

Everything is an experiment.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

From the beginning I thought about working with the body in movement, the space between the body and clothes. I wanted the clothes to move when people moved. The clothes are also for people to dance or laugh.

My design is no design.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

Of course there are many ways we can reuse something. We can dye it. We can cut it. We can change the buttons. Those are other ways to make it alive. But this is a new step to use anything - hats, socks, shirts. It's the first step in the process.

I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked.

All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.

My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.

The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?

I do not create a fashionable aesthetic... I create a style based on life.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

Boys have been wearing skirts for some time now. My three assistants wear mini skirts. They come to work on their motorcycles wearing mini skirts. The French saw the idea on the streets and have done it in better fabrics, and now everyone says, 'Ah!'

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.