If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.