If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what everyday stuff famous people add to their carts — like hair spray or an electric toothbrush. We asked Smokey Robinson about the cologne, golf clubs, and designer sneakers he can’t live without.
I’ve been using this for a long time because it’s good for my skin. It’s more of a clear kind of soap than one with creams and stuff in it.
The brand is for men, so they say, and there’s a body lotion, shower soap, and a whole line of men’s cosmetics. It is very, very good for my skin, I found. My skin is clear and what have you. It works well for me.
I’ve been using this for over 20 years, and it is my signature scent. I very seldom have used anything else. Oh, how do you describe a smell, honey? I have no idea. It just smells good on me, I hope. I play golf and do a lot of active stuff that I wouldn’t need to have cologne on, but if I’m going somewhere or doing something special, I use the Obsession.
I drink it all the time. I drink it every day. It is my favorite water. It just feels cleaner than the other waters to me. It goes down better. It seems softer or something. The other ones seem a little thicker to me. I just like Fiji.
I just like Quaker Oats, honey. I get the original. I get the instant, especially if I’m on the road or something like that, and I’m going to do it myself. I’ve been eating it since I was a child. I use almond milk. I put honey in it sometimes. You can get the instant, which already has sweetener in it, I guess, because you don’t have to put anything in it, but when I do, I use honey.
When you see a professional golfer, nobody has a set of golf clubs anymore. You get the clubs that you can hit the best with. So my bag is mixed, and I have about four or five different brands of clubs in my bag. I have a golf closet in my house full of clubs. I’ve been playing golf for 35 years, honey, so it is full of all different clubs. No, babe, I don’t have a favorite, because they all serve my purpose. You know what I’m saying? They’re all mixed, and I picked them because of that. They all serve the purpose of what their distance is supposed to be. Each one is my favorite one for that particular distance. Clubs advance like everything else, and they bring out new ones. I was playing a concert in Phoenix, and the PING Golf Factory is in Phoenix. The owner of PING brought his family to the concert and he invited me to come over, and they made me a set of clubs. All of them are your favorites, if they’re doing what you want them to do that day.
They just make great caps, honey. I have all kinds of golf caps. Like I said, I’ve been playing for 40 years, so I have every golf brand cap that you can think of. But just the style of that one — if I had a favorite, that would be it. I have every color you can think of. I love colors, and I have every color golf bag you can think of. And so I change my bags with my outfit.
They just fit great and they’re comfortable. My wife bought me my first pair of Prada sneakers, and I absolutely love them. Before, I was using whatever sneakers I had, Nike, Adidas. I have all that too, but Prada is my favorite. I have a couple that I can wear when I dress up, too.
I was one of the first members of American Express. I’ve been a member since 1964. I had Diners before then, but American Express came out and they had a better program and all that, so I switched over. And that was in 1964. I mean, a credit card is a credit card, but they’re very good, especially on fraud. The minute somebody goes into a store and buys something, even if it’s me sometimes, especially if I’m out of the country, they’ll call. “Is it you using this card?” They’re great. I have the black card, which is the best card that they have.
This one I’ve been driving since December of 2020. My wife actually got that for me, too, because I was in the hospital at the time. I lease my cars. I haven’t bought a car in a long time. I bought her some cars, but I don’t buy mine. I get the Escalade because if I want to go somewhere, if I want to get it cleaned up and go to a ball or something like that, it fits that. But I like it because it’s rugged also. I put my golf stuff in there, my golf clubs, and so on and so forth. The one that I have now is a steel gray. This one comes with everything on it, and that’s what I like. I’m sorry that all cars have discontinued the cassette players and the CD players because I have a bunch of those that I used to play in my car all the time, but the cars have just eliminated them.
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