The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

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

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

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.