“Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability”

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.

The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

The purpose of life is life.

I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.

We’ve made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people.

We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other.