I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.

I have always had a relationship with clothes.

There is a secret hippie within me.

Sophie knew about power animals, everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.

It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care.

I'm really glad that Italy went out, they were playing boring football. (on Euro 2004)

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

We've got a lot of racing left, but when we're winning at places we're not supposed to, you better watch out.

Typically, you get a year in prison for making a threat to assassinate the president.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

Birds are an ecological litmus paper.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.