It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

I think there is beauty in everything.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

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

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

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

People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.