Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

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?'

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, 'Oh my God, I can't walk in that!' It was like, three inches - they look like kitten heels now.

I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.

Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.