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

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.

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.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

Each day is a blessing, and I awake wondering what wonderful thing, no matter how big or small, will happen to me today.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

A new study reveals that one-third of babies in the U.S. have used a smartphone. Yeah, and one-third of babies in China have MADE a smartphone.

Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.