I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

We are LornaCruzCharlotteDelilahIsla and we aren’t afraid of love, even if we’re supposed to be.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

The reason we have choices in life, is so we don't blame anyone for the consequences of our decisions.

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!