I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.
I am a melancholy type of person.
I am married to work.
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game.
For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.
I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
I think I should be a president. President of the United States.
There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.
You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment.
Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me.
As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
I'm interested in designing for posterity.
Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
The police need to come down to street level.
Fame should be left to the film stars.
I've had good times; I've had bad times.
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.