It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

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.

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

There is no better designer than nature

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.

I think I should be a president. President of the United States.

The police need to come down to street level.