I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!"

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

You have to want to dare being a model. You have to dare or you don't go that step further. You have to be willing to stretch - and to not only be willing to stretch, but to want to stretch.

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.

Style doesn't have seasons.

I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down.

I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

I was fascinated looking at John Galliano's couture. They're just extraordinary extravaganzas and I love it. I love looking at it because it's like going to a museum.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

Tell me I'm not crazy, " He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.

Don't be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

US special forces are closing in on Saddam Hussain but they're afraid to go in. He's hiding out in Tony Martin's farmhouse.

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.