As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

There is no better designer than nature

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Control is not humble

Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.

I'd decided to write him and tell him to leave me alone. Please, in a nice way, go away, I really can't deal with you.

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.

People don't want to read subtitles.