As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Chris Brown is SUCH a douchebag.

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

Passion is the genius of genius.

He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.