I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.

Technology is the only means through which you touch on new things.

I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.

It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.

My furniture is banal and my house is pretty empty. The hardest thing to find is a sofa that is comfortable and looks good. The ones I like are never comfortable.

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin'

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

The sad heart needs work to do.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

I would love to be friends with Kanye West, because I know he is not a dreadful person, he is a lovely person and I think he is misunderstood.