I've never said I'm a fashion designer.

The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.

If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can't want you to succeed more than you do.

Don't give up! You're too talented. You're too good!

I'm doing all that I can to prod the industry and get them to pay more attention [to larger women and petite women]. Because I find it to be reprehensible and repugnant that two populations that are so pervasive in this nation should be so badly neglected.

Trying and acheiving are two different things.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.