You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

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.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.

I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.