You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!

I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.

To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed.

I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.

I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.