Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

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.

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.