But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

I think it's important to vote.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

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

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

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.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

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

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I can't think without my glasses.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

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.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

I disagree with everything I used to say.