I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will.

Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."

Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex

I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.