When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: 'You shouldn't smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.