I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

I don't follow politics much.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

The French have got taste.

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

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.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

There is so much that people take for granted.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I am in my own head most of the time.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I think I've got wiser.

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could.

I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.

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

Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.