Anouska Hempel

I don't let many people in. I don't discuss everything. If I don't want to discuss it, I'm not discussing it. I think that annoys the hell out of an awful lot of people.

I buy the best fabrics from small mills in Italy. That is the basis for my clothes.

Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.