Everything makes you who you are, so I was lucky that I had a good family that was horrified by what I wanted to do but was also supportive of it, right to the very end.

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

I went to the Vatican once - it was a bad idea. I went into the bookshop and I bought hideous, pious postcards and then I asked for a receipt, and the nun said, "We don't give receipts at the Vatican." Which threw me into a rage of like, "I guess not, so you can take this money and funnel it into anti-homosexual groups!" People had to drag me out of there. It's not good for me to go into the Vatican.

I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.