I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

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.

No matter what is your name, gender, race and nationality, you too are fully capable in turning your dreams into realities.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

I don't think about the real future very much.