There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

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.

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

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

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.