The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

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'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

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

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.