People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

A girl could lather up in soap like that.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.