I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.

I love what I do, and I only want more. I love the whole process. I love designing, I love figuring out how to make the clothes happen, I love the ad campaigns.

People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

Every man treats himself as society treats the criminal.

Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect, thoughts, imagination, creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.

If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

How much good can you do today? How much love can you give? How much care and kind attention?

Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.

Dictators always look good until the last minutes.