I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.

I love what I do, and I only want more. I love the whole process. I love designing, I love figuring out how to make the clothes happen, I love the ad campaigns.

People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.

What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

Having been an editor for more than a decade, I thought I had a good idea of how much work was involved in writing a novel. I was wrong! Writing is a lot harder than I ever imagined - but worth it.

Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

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