“I need to distort not just leather and fabric, but also words. It's a ...” — Kenneth Cole Quote

I need to distort not just leather and fabric, but also words. It's a disorder I have.

I am the closest of all to my wife, who is in and of herself a change agent and has committed to impacting the realities of homelessness - and making sure I get out of the house every day to do what I have to do.

In the early years I had no real plan. I figured it out as I went, which is easier to do when you don't have a lot of staff and overhead. Back then I believed my job was just to create great-looking shoes. That wasn't true. I learned that the shoes needed to fit, be comfortable, and not fall apart.

Being the son of a women's shoe factory owner, 'Kinky Boots' resonated with me on so many different levels.

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.

An essential question regarding treatment is whether psychodynamic therapy is effective for specific disorders.

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.