With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

There will be no white flag above my door, I'm in love and always will be

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.