Fame should be left to the film stars.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

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.

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

I am a melancholy type of person.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.