Quotes from Jeremy Scott

I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.

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 fell in love with L.A. To me, it is the most quintessentially American city.

Being pure in my voice has always served me the best. Anytime I've tried to hide my light under a bushel, it's never done me any good.

I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.

I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them.

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.

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 don't really shop unless it's thrift.

An Isaac Mizrahi fashion-show ticket signed by Steven Meisel. I rushed up to Meisel at the end of the show and asked him to autograph the card that had his name and seating assignment on it. It was an incredible moment when he shot the autumn/winter 2014 Moschino campaign.

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.

McDonald's, Barbie - they're all icons, recognizable from London to Timbuktu.

There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.

I was in heaven when I saw Taraji P. Henson wearing Moschino!

I was Hillary in '08. I love Obama, but I was Hillary first, so I was happy to be back there with her again.

My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.

I love what I do, and I only want more. I love the whole process. I love designing, I love figuring out how to make the clothes happen, I love the ad campaigns.

I've taken a look back at my body of work and tried to deduce an essence, capturing aspects that reoccur. Reflecting on your own product can be difficult yet enthralling.

Night in. I'm really kind of a homebody.

One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.

My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.

I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.

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've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.