I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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