Quotes by Kate Moss

I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. Im amazing with gravy. Thats my speciality even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. Im very proud of my gravy.

People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish featureless suburb of Croydon.

I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin - those natural English beauties. Thats the look that is most me, when I wore the tight-to-the knee dresses. I dont think I bleached my hair until I was 20. I like experimenting for big occasions, though. Youve always got to do a bit of a number for the birthday!

Im not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. Ive never been to design school. I cant sketch. I cant cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. Shell say, No, Mummy, you cant wear that. Shes very good. I do trust her instinct.

Theres nobody thats ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, What do I do? hed tell me. And thats what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.

There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

You can be a pretty face, but if youre not a nice person, it just doesnt work. Im not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think Im all right. If youre a nice person, it definitely helps.

I am so romantic about Gypsies. Theyre not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But its easy to be chewed up and spat out. Youve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.

“I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in the morning.”