People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.