I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

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

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.