Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

Children remind us that we're all children.

What a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.

Of all matches never was the like.

With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

We're all standing on the shoulders of what other people have done. But you're supposed to take that and add your own sauce. It can be intimidating, believe me.

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.