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

“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”

“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”

“Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots”

“A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage – what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.”

“He’d changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.”

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”

“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes — it’s about all kinds of change”

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”