Quotes from Karl Lagerfeld

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

I'm a total puritan, but I found Jacques' adventures amusing. We couldn't be further apart. I am a Calvinist toward myself and totally indulgent toward others.

I never played with anything like toys.

I never fall in love.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

The discussion of fur is childish.

I like chocolate. I don't eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I've met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet - I just shut up and bow down.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.

I'm an iPod person.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.