I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

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.

It was God who gave a man's rib to a woman. But it is man who must learn to give away his heart and never take it back.

Human beings aren't orchids we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.

I've seen firsthand the high human cost of war.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

Philosophy is for the few.