When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag.

The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now.

And my little sister Chrissy, for teaching me that life is nothing if you're not obsessed.

I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take Mace. Are you kidding? I guess, they're around so many criminal elements that they fear for.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

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