My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

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.

Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences.

The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.