“If you're curious, London's an amazing place.”

“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”

“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.”

“I left school on my 15th birthday.”

“The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.”

“I love learning new techniques.”

“I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.”

“In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.”