I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

There is so much that people take for granted.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.