I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.