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

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.

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.

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.

We created not only to exist but to fulfill a sacred mission.

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.