Nico Sisneros: Daren Kagasoff for VMAN

On The Record

"you're responsible for the energy that you create for yourself and you are responsible for the energy that you bring to others" -oprah winfrey
"it's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not"
"i love Los Angeles. i love Hollywood. they're beautiful. everybody's plastic, but i love plastic. i want to be plastic" -andy warhol
"life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself"
"we all are called. everybody has a calling and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it" -oprah
"success is no accident. it is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice & most of all love of what you are doing"- pele
"you have to be prepared for people to hate you, average people love to be average because nobody bothers them" -kelly cutrone
"some women choose to follow men & some women choose to follow their dreams, if you're wondering which way to go, remember your career will never wake up & tell you that it doesn't love you anymore" -lady gaga
"you know where nice people end up? on welfare" -kelly cutrone
"im never content with what i do. i live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. i think thats the secret to do things well" -karl lagerfeld
"your choice shows far more than your voice"
"every sinner has a future, every saint has a past" -oscar wilde
"anybody who became somebody risked being nobody"
"intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are" -amy bloom
"religion breeds fragmentation" -madonna
"confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being and ask yourself solemnly, must i write?" -rainer maria rilke