I am a melancholy type of person.

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.

He was the toast to her butter.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.

Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].