Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

I'm so involved in melancholy.

Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.

The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy