I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I always wear the kind of stuff that makes you overheat and die.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

Looking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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 could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn’t concentrate on my problem.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Time stays, we go.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

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

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

I have wondered about time all my life.