I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.

It is proper netiquette to invite new friends in real life to connect with you on the internet. NetworkEtiquette.net

Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

It takes a lot to still believe in people.

If you let love solve everything for you, you have a lot of problems.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.