My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.

When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.

I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.

I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive.

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

Great. I guess you're the dog whisperer, vampire edition.

Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.

People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

Hillary Clinton represents a whole network of people and a network of relationships with particular states.

That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!

I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.