I Am Insecure. Everyone's Insecure.

Trends Don't Interest Me.

I Like The New Shoe Designers. Not All Of Them - There Are Really Bad Ones Too. But I Go To The Colleges With These Kids For Lectures, As An Honorary Professor Or Whatever, And This Chinese Girl I Like Very Much Who I Give The Award To Says To Me, "you Don't Know How Much You Inspired Me To Do Shoes." And I'm Glad That I Convey That Kind Of Desire To People When They See My Bloody Shoes.

I'm Relating To A Period That Doesn't Exist Anymore.

The Most Tragic Moment Of My Life Was The First Show I Ever Designed For. I Had Been Asked To Make Shoes For Ossie Clark's Show In The Early '70s. I Was So Inexperienced That I Didn't Put The Steel In The Heels Of The Shoes, Which Is Required To Support The Shoe And The Wearer. So The Girls Came Out Walking Very Strangely In These Rubber, Bendy High-heeled Shoes I Had Made. I Thought 'oh Dear God! This Is The End Of Me.' But After The Show, Even David Hockney And Cecil Beaton Said To Me 'it Was So Interesting That The Girls Were Moving In Such A Different Way.'

Passion Is Passion. It's A Sort Of Madness And Possession Of What You Do Or What You Think. This Is The Difference Of Life: Passion And Commerce, Which Most Of The People Know As "p.c." But People Have Just Got "c" Now Instead Of "p."