I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

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.

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

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

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’m different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I’ve built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image… My image is real… I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

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

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It’s a piece that men wear every day, and it’s something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it’s on the street or going to an awards ceremony.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

I’ve definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it’s a little more raw.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

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.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.