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.

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

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.