I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.

Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.

By all means, learn beyond the classroom. In the end, thats all that will matter

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.