I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

How could you be sad, when you can sing?

I want to be your personal penguin.Please?

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

I tell myself he's better than he makes himself out to be, but, Tessa, what if he isn't?

I'd been a Bowie fan before punk and used to get no end of trouble. I was always getting knocked about and having to run up the street, getting chased by people. It was horrible.

I was depressed. I was just depressed. I did not want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler because I knew of the record.

Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.

I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said, "I'll just get a tan instead."

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.