I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Technology is the only means through which you touch on new things.

I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.

My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.

I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.

It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.

My furniture is banal and my house is pretty empty. The hardest thing to find is a sofa that is comfortable and looks good. The ones I like are never comfortable.

London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.

My head bows before the thing you mention.But my heart doesn't speak that lan

Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.

Tears dont show in rain but you feel them

Art is I science is we.

But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

Every love song I write is for Linda.