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

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.

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.

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.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

Don’t be too fast to highlight the weaknesses of other people. That is the quickest way of exposing your own weaknesses.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

I miss that smile covered with the tears of longing.

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on some nice clothes to go out and have a good time.

I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.