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 am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

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.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

There are not too many people with an opinion I care for.