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.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Without literature, life is hell.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are.

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!