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There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats.

Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose... you lose to gain.

The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.