I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

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.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.

According to Aquinas, effort may not be the best measure of our virtue.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.