I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

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.

In Hollywood, normally things don't work out, and dreams are crushed.

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.

Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.

The misers cheese is wholesomest

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife

The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

I have a problem with homosexual acts.