Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

The best fashion accessory is a book.

Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.