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.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

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.

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

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.