Betsey Johnson

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

If I could choose to have one superpower, I would want to be able to make everyone love everyone!

I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.

I love New York. You want to find out if you're any good? Try New York. Who sang that? Frank Sinatra? If you make it here, you can make it anywhere.

I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.

I've always been a little off, but it's worked really well for me, and it still works. After so many years, you have a look, you become a brand, la la la.

Celebrate the idea that you don't fit in. Find your own fit. Stay unique.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.

My favorite era was the '60s because it was filled with incredible creative newness, from panty hose to landing on the moon to Twiggy and Andy Warhol - I loved them, and they loved to wear my silver clothes.

Accessories design is one of the most creative categories. It's like cooking, like decorating, because it involves the person. They have to choose, and they have to figure out how to wear it and to mix it based on their style.