I am totally unattached to material items.

Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.

CHALLENGES ACT AS A MIRROR TO OUR WEAKEST PARTS.

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.