I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!

For me style has something to do with your inner attitude towards clothes and the awareness what sits well on yourself.

Take a second look, you might have not seen it all.

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

I've dipped my toe into the beauty world and I'd like to keep it there!

Love exists at all times.

Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money.

No one was getting past him.

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.