I am married to work.

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.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

What's possible today isn't bound by what was possible yesterday, and is never a measure of what's possible tomorrow.