I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore. There aren't enough designers today anyway - there are more stylists.

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

You have to want to dare being a model. You have to dare or you don't go that step further. You have to be willing to stretch - and to not only be willing to stretch, but to want to stretch.

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.

Style doesn't have seasons.

I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down.

I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.

I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!"

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

The greatest asset you could own, is an open heart.

By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.

The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops.

I love to see people laugh and put a smile on peoples' faces. Anytime I'm doing that I'm happy.

Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.