Lucy Boynton Quotes

My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

Obviously, Gaga's one of the greatest music visionaries of our time, and Beyonce is one of the greatest visions of our time. She is a music visionary, too.

I felt like I grew up with Bowie. I never dressed like him, even though I did love the music, but consistently throughout my career he has been a go-to reference point: The suit from 'Young Americans,' or the gold Missoni-type looks of Ziggy Stardust. 'The Berlin Years' still influences me.

Ian Curtis was a young genius.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

I am a black new wave artist.

I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden.

I listen to Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, U2, and it becomes part of me, comes out in my music. Wherever it goes, there will always be the fabric of New Orleans in it.

Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right.

All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.

I'm happy to have been around greatness like Kendrick Lamar.

I went through a Billy Idol phase. I had white hair when Peter Rizzo hired me at Barneys.

I always think about how Chaka Khan used to take suede, all these classic fabrics, and then make them very movable. She's my everything!

Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in the broadest sense.

I love Tilda Swinton and the way she dresses. She always looks like a piece of art.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

I really loved the hardcore alternative vibe Prince had on 'Dirty Mind.'

It has been a marvellous experience and a great gift collaborating with Madonna. Now that I have had the chance to see her working, I truly understand why she is so grand! I believe she is a true artist, and I am crazy about her.

Lady Gaga is phenomenal. From the first day I met her, she was lightning in a bottle.

Leigh Bowery is a legend. Everybody loves Leigh Bowery. Everybody should love Leigh Bowery.