At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

I'm terrified of being bored and not learning.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

Thank you, Jane Birkin, for providing me with infinite outfit ideas and the confidence to dress like a boy but act like a girl.

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort.

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

There is no such a thing as living fully without following one's true passion in life.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

Little people have changed from the 1970s to now.

Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.