Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Design is an unknown.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty.

In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?

How can a person live without love?

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

How wise must one be to be always kind.

I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.