The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.

I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.