“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics”

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

To achieve great things, we must first dream

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost – unloved she might as well die.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been born in the wrong century. She should have lived back when she could have gotten herself fed to some lions for a good cause.

I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

I’m pretty optimistic about the future of rock… it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don’t understand it can enjoy.

One thing I’m big on is believing in giving an album time. I’ll say you’ll have to give an album three years before you can call it a classic. If you can’t listen to it three years later then it’s not really a classic.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.