I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it.

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

You can't stay in one place. If you stay in one place you die. So you have to move forward.

Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.

Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do.

I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

You reach a saturation point where people resent having to share you more with people who they think are not as connected and so they end up with a feeling of resentment.