“I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.” 

“Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.” 

“I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.” 

“I like to literally put women on a pedestal” 

“I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.” 

“I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.” 

“I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.” 

“The most erotic zone is the imagination.” 

“I can't think without my glasses.” 

“People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.” 

“Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.”

“I disagree with everything I used to say.” 

“I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.” 

“There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.” 

“We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.” 

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

I think it's important to vote.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.