Roberto Cavalli

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

Sometimes incompetence is useful. It helps you keep an open mind.

I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.