STELLA MCCARTNEY

I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will start to think that way on a longer-term basis.

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

I ride my bike, I work out, I do a bit of, er, dancey things.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

I don't plan massively in advance.

I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good.

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.

I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.

It's one of my biggest internal struggles - the whole schooling system in London and the fact that my kids are going to a posh school. It freaks me out.

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

At times I make music, but in private.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.