I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. I’m here for two days in New York; I leave in the morning early. I come back for Anna Wintour’s party at the Met, then again at the end of May for a prize I get from the Gordon Parks Foundation.

You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

There will never be a chanel collection without black