I am not bothered about fashion's speed-up. I find it quite exciting!

The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Let me be clear. I applaud self love. I appreciate self value. But if you're not capable of loving another person just as much... you will never experience true love.

Self-love, self-confident and self-determination.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.

I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.