I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them.

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

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.

Christianity increases the scope and area of our lives.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder, Don't break my heart, don't ring out.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

He who helps in the saving of others, saves himself as well.

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

Image has an influence on what sort of car I will get to drive or deals that I'm offered by teams.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.