We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.

Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.

The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.