I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.

To me, beauty and sadness are very closely linked. Truly beautiful things make me sad because I know they are going to fade. When I see a beautiful 20-year-old boy or girl-and they are breathtaking-I am filled with a kind of sadness. But maybe they are beautiful because we know they are not permanent and they are in a kind of transition.

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

It's like everything in your life is wonderful, but you have so much wonderful - this is all going to sound horrible - but when you have so much wonderful, it isn't wonderful because you don't actually have time to enjoy it.