Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.