In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler - that i am very dark and everything - I have a side that is very romantic that i show to very few people.

Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

Black is always elegant. It is the most complete colour in the whole world, made of all the colours in the palette.

My definition of beauty is something between extremely ugly and extremely fantastic.

For me, darkness is something very beautiful.

I’m very faithful to myself. When you do things that are true it just comes out quite instinctively.

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor.

My life has changed financially and I have a name, but I try to never forget people on my journey.

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

Living in the world of the workshop, which I do as a teacher, you have to be articulate about craft. And that often involves imposing analysis on work that's in a pretty raw state.

I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would become yet and I needed to read to figure it out.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.