You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.

Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.

Do I dream very much? Do I dream predominantly about fashion? No. I dream much more about cats.

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind.

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

The artist doesn't see things as they are but as he is.

As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.