I'm an old bag - I like old things.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, "You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes." And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes.

People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.