I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.