Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

If I think about it too much, I can't get dressed.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.