Quotes from John Galliano

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do

I listen and talk to God daily.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

You only get a short life, so take chances.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

I'm ready to create.

My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.

I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.