Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

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.

This is probably going to be one wound that can never be healed.

It's fine to admit being nervous - after the event. But if you tell people you're uptight before the game, it can be like, 'That guy's got problems. We can't trust him.'

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

& these haters try to knock me but they can't knock me off the hinges.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians