I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I’m so fair.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

I’m like 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I wanted to write.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I like to look good, my friend.

The stylish kids on the street, they’re the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they’re doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it’s like, why not go directly to the source?

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, ‚What kind of music do you make?‘, and you say, ‚Pop music.‘ You may as well have ‚I’m not cool‘ stamped on your forehead.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

I didn’t even know I needed throw pillows. That was always Brad’s thing.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

My whole life is a theater piece.

Obviously black matches with everything.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Art is the proper task of life.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.