Quotes from Daphne Guinness

If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.

It's quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it's nice to go home.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.

Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

Through art, you create your own world.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

Oh, I love tea. I have to take tea bags wherever I go.

I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again - and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but I don't really think about it too much.

My style is difficult to contain in a sentence; it's ever evolving. Generally I'm drawn to clean cuts and avoid patterns. I tend to choose structure and block colors, but these are all just loose guidelines.

I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

Seasons are really annoying. You get a really great pair of shoes or a beautiful pair of boots, and then you try to get them again four months later, and they say, 'Oh no, that was last season.'

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?

Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.

I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.