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" I'm an introverted extrovert. My job sets me apart, but I'm not hammy and don't need attention. "

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" When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes. "

" Sometimes when I'm just really relaxed, that's also a creative time for me, because that's when my mind is more open because I'm not worried or thinking or being very analytical. "

" I don't really shop unless it's thrift. "

" I get love from fans in a big enough dosage that it acts as a shield, and I would not sacrifice that love in order to please the industry. "

" I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words. "

" I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again. "

" I've met people with my prints tattooed on them, my face tattooed on them - I have that commitment and love. "

" I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn't go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show. "

" I always grew up watching things transform, and a lot of that was what we would call trash. "

" Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own. "

" You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed. "

" I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself. "

" There are so many serious things in the world; I just choose not to be one of them. "

" When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held steadfast to the fact that I had a dream, a reason why I'm doing this... that it was bigger than this moment. "

" I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature. "

" I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work. "

" There's a lot of fashion that I don't respond to and I just walk on. I always look for things that make me happy, and in my work, all I'm doing is trying to convey that joy. Fashion should always be fun. "

" I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it's boring. "

" Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you. "

" I'm a very normal person with a very even keel. "

" I have lots of muses, but one of my main girls is Cara Delevingne. She epitomises the way to wear my clothes. I love how she mixes up her style and the way she has so much fun. I simply adore her. "

" A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that's because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear. "

" I'm a populist. I'm the people's designer... It's important that there are price points that allow people in who maybe don't have the ability to have higher-ticket items - but they can still have something very emblematic of the collection. "

" I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad. "