People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately.

Every season, I absorb everything around m:, the people I see on the street, the discos, the art, the music, and the energy of places from my travels. I mix all of this together, and then I begin to create.

To love shoes is to love problems. Every season, starting a new collection is my greatest challenge. The blank slate in front of me, starting the process all over again, there is no greater challenge.

You know, 65-year-olds love sneakers because they make them feel forty.

I like the notion of making stuff up or letting your imagination go away with you.

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.