Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.

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.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Lucas took a tentative sip of his coffee. It tasted like an otter had pissed in a tea urn and it had been left to go stale over a prolonged period.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Reader one moment stop and think, That I am in eternity and you are on the brink.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater