Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

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.