For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in 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.

You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die.

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

Jimmy and I were always partners.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

In the next election, can we vote to ban those ribbon things that kind of keep clothing on hangers but really just hang out of your armpits?

Life is the best and only timekeeper.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.