The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.