“I try to make clothes the way Lou Reed does music, with minimal chord ...” — Rick Owens Quote

“I try to make clothes the way Lou Reed does music, with minimal chord changes. It's about giving everything I make a worn, softened feel. It's about an elegance being tinged with the barbaric, the luxury of not caring.”

“Anybody that creates anything is just creating new compositions of things that have existed before. We're all creating something, we're all creating our own personal works of art in ourselves.”

“I've always been grateful for the acceptance I've got because I know that I'm not always promoting the most popular thing in the world. But I always had an honorable little project, and great people to help me execute.”

“The Russian norm is an extremely barbaric state of mind.”

“What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.”

“Fundamentally, the world is not that sophisticated. A lot of it is very crude, cruel, and barbaric.”