You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.

The only thing people are interested in is people.