Steve Madden

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I'd like to work with Damien Hirst.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.