I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own.

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

We don't criticize. Criticism is an enemy. You've got to make loving, positive suggestions.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.