I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.

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.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.