You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.

If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.

If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.

I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.

I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.

As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.

If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be the face of Givenchy - of course you can't; it's doesn't go with the job.

I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

The Earth is flat, 100 per cent.

There's no proof of the Earth's curvature and this fake space agency Nasa use CGI images and every one is different.

When someone like Richard Branson goes up there and starts doing chartered flights... and you can look back on Earth and see the Earth's curvature, I'll believe the Earth is a globe.

Your fitness is your ability to recover and you can't recover when you're old.

It might sound strange now from where I'm standing as a world boxing champion, but I harboured serious thoughts, at the age of nine, of putting my whole life into snooker. I remember being fascinated by the game, watching the likes of Steve Davis, and thought I would do it.

I watched Sly Stallone and the 'Rocky' movies over and over again. They were fantastic.

I always wanted my job to be something I that loved doing.

I was 5ft 3in tall until I was 17. Then I suddenly shot up.

I haven't had the recognition I deserve. You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs. I've won against more unbeaten fighters than any of them, had more exciting fights.

When people retire, they should stay retired.

I don't hype a fight to sell tickets.

I say that I'm genetically gifted. In a weight-governed sport, I don't put weight on because of my Polish 'heritage, it's genetic. Even when I am not in training, I don't put on weight. When I start training, I don't need to take a lot of weight off.

If Mikkel Kessler thinks I'm going soft just because I'm a dad then he's the one who's gone soft in the head.

I don't look at my opponent's eyes in the ring. I watch his gloves so that I can block or avoid his punches.

I've kept improving in many ways. Boxers evolve with experience.

There's something weird about me the way even the biggest punches to the jaw don't wobble me, but if you can avoid being hit too often, so much the better.

Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this 'gunk, gunk, gunk' rhythm.

Boxing's a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don't think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.

I never cheated on nutrition, I always had a really good diet and I always supplemented well - that's a massive factor in any sport. Even in everyday life, if people are just going to the gym recreationally, they'll have targets in mind and if you're not supplementing correctly or concentrating on your diet, you're wasting your time.

I'll never be able to replace the feeling of standing victorious in the ring, that's never going to happen again and I'm never going to fight again.

I don't actually think boxing is a particularly dangerous sport, I wouldn't even put it in the top ten of dangerous sports, but that's only if you take it seriously. Whenever I stepped into the ring I was well hydrated, I was at the right weight and I was prepared. It wasn't a dangerous sport for me.

I won four world titles, got beat twice - but avenged one of those losses - and the other loss was on points to someone who was unbeaten in Andre Ward. I had a comfortable, successful career and it wasn't through natural ability but through dedication and hard work.

The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.

Sometimes big boxing matches should take place on the cobbles. That's really where Mikkel Kessler and me ought to have sorted it out.

Make no mistake, the days and hours before going into the ring can be stressful for any boxer. The bigger and tougher the fight the greater stress, But if a boxer knows he's stepping out of his league it's even worse.

Sparring is not as tough as a fight.

I don't need to do that many weights but every now and then I do the bar, with 25-30 kilos on either side, which amounts to roughly probably my body weight. I lift this up above my head, then drop it and lift it up again.

You can improve your punching power, but only to an extent. If you can punch hard, then it's just god-given, that's just nature, not nurture and there's not much you can do to develop punching power.

I've been in the ring with big-muscled heavyweights and cruiserweights, who couldn't punch the skin off a rice pudding, and then I've taken on light welterweights and light middleweights, and they hit hard, and you can see they're not trying.