By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Work for money, design for love.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

Nobody's innocent... but that doesn't reset the bar on guilt.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.

When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.