The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

I am a control freak.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.

I love vintage and prints.

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

Genius is perseverance in disguise.

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Thug Life to me is dead.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.