You can get insular with fashion.

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.

Each day is always breaking out anew Aspirations swirling round what you do

Need is choice come to fruition.

It’s ironic that those who lack self-confidence are often the ones who find it hardest to say no.

You get bummed out, and then you go, "Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself." That kind of helps.

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

A good indication that it's not is if you're only staying with What's His Name because you're scared.

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.