Quotes from Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

I think it's important to vote.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.