I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.

Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.

The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that’s what really sums up style for me.

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do.

Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.

Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.

You can't stay in one place. If you stay in one place you die. So you have to move forward.

Fashion can be cruel. Style is a gift to others.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life time unenriched by experience creative endeavor enjoyment and suffering.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.

I just try to do what I do best, contribute to my team.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.