In order to be successful, you have to honor what's in old fashion house, but you also have to play with it and push the limits of it.

When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.

It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts - I think they often end up winning out.

Paris is one of the most incredible places to live. Once you get bitten by the city, you never leave.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

I think my biggest muses in fashion are probably rock 'n' roll girlfriends, like Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull and Bianca Jagger - and then maybe Patti Smith a bit as well.

I'm really working on trying to get that lifestyle aspect of the Emilio Pucci house to be as strong as possible.

I'm not intellectual at all as a designer. Whatever I'm into at the moment is usually what becomes the collection.

I feel like I have to go back to Paris every so often. It just grows on you - the look of the city, the way people hang out there. If you're in Europe, it's good for that.

Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.

Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons

Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.