It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.