“I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven ...” — John Rocha Quote

I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.

I want romance; I want people to be happy in their relationships.

As a heterosexual designer, it is really, really important to have a woman's point of view.

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

My Chinese grandmother was a dressmaker, so I always enjoyed dressing up and looking cool.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

I do not just follow fashion for the sake of it with people telling me 'this is not the colour of the season or this is a summer collection.' I don't pick my clothes on that basis.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

My debut album is like a collection of work over the past nine or ten years that I've been writing since I was 18-years-old, and when you've had that long writing music you get to select the music that has worked really well.