Taste has nothing to do with style.

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.