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.

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.

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

One of the greatest struggles of the healing process is to forgive both yourself and others and to stop expending valuable energy on the past hurts.

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

Had we kept the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS, because they fuel their growth with the oil.

Let us not leave for tomorrow what we can do today. It is now that we must come unto Christ.

I never supported violence. Before the formation of TMC, I was a member of the Congress Party. Gandhi's Congress. Non-violence is a philosophy that runs deep.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.