Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

There is no better designer than nature

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your head. I think that is amazing.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

In any situation, I choice to keep my peace.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the wheel.

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.