There is no better designer than nature

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.

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.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

Trust takes a long time to develop, but can be lost in the blink of an eye.

No one feels your empty stomach, but everyone does your empty brain.

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.

To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.

One of the wonderful things about being ALIVE is that it's never too late.

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.