I brought a lot of the codification of womenswear to menswear. Why? Because when I was a child, I was wearing women's clothes adjusted to me.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

If mankind was playing a baseball game, he would still be choosing his lineup after the game was over.

I'm not for amnesty. I've never been for amnesty, will never be for amnesty.

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out.

Write about what you don't know about what you know.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

The universe will always remove what is no longer serving you.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to."

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.