People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.