I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.

If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, it seems to me he should at least have an outfit for that.

To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.

If you think someone's trying too hard, that's the worst thing they can do. To me, it's just desperate, never funny and never witty. It's kind of really old hat because just being shocking isn't enough. It has to change how you think about something. It has to startle you. It has to make you look at something and reconsider whether you're right. That's the whole point.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.