“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
- Jack Kerouac

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles..."
- Jack Kerouac

I met her backstage at Marc Jacobs and introduced myself. She was wearing a ferociously studded mask and insisted on kissing my cheek, which almost blinded me. Gaga really makes such an effort just for a simple meeting in the office. She was wearing Philip Treacy’s hat with Vogue written on it when she came to see Anna, and when she came to see me the next day she had sprayed her hair red. I was really amused and flattered.
- Grace Coddington, on the thoughtfulness behind Gaga's style.

"I can have oodles of charm when I want to."
- Kurt Vonnegut

Lady Astor: "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
Churchill: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

"If you're a nice person and you work hard, you get to go shopping at Barneys. It's the decadent reward."
- Sarah Jessica Parker

“The similarity I would focus on is one of leadership — people who are passionate about what they do and are doing it under high stake circumstances. It’s a good way of describing Anna Wintour. It’s a good way of describing James Carville. And George Stephanopolous. And Grace Coddington. Though they certainly dress differently.”
- RJ Cutler, on the similarities between his two documentaries, The September Issue and The War Room

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow

"D’you know any model over the age of 23 has to be touched up these days. Twenty-three? It’s fucking ridiculous but that’s what you have to do for American Vogue and it’s getting to be the same over here [in England]. They want shoots that look like a shop window in Knightsbridge. They always have the same kind of dead-looking girls. It isn’t interesting and the girls aren’t interesting. Because they aren’t girls. They’re androids. Airbrushed and cleaned up and not real."
- David Bailey

"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can happen to you because someone's got to take care of all your details."
- Andy Warhol

"I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I’m gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it’s gay. And I love my gay fans and they’re all going to be coming to our show. And it’s going to remain gay."
- Lady Gaga, on what she told Kanye West before committing to tour with him.

"Food tastes better when you're not wearing shoes."
- Anthony Bourdain

"They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
- Andy Warhol

"I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not." -Kurt Cobain

"I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep."

- Andy Warhol

"Gia, this is life, not heaven. You don't have to be perfect."

- Francesco in "Gia", (1998)(TV)

"I'm European. I wake up in heels."

- Julia Restoin-Roitfeld

"I love all designers. I appreciate a life devoted to fashion."

- Lady Gaga, during a press conference in Malta.

"There is something about fashion that can make people very nervous."

- Anna Wintour, in The September Issue.

“I just put on clothes in the morning and hope for the best. I always think I look so normal.”

- Daphne Guinness, on her style to nymag.com's Video Look Book.