I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.

My philosophy was that I never had focus groups.

I know it's not enjoying my success to do this, but when I see too many Polo shirts, I say to myself, 'That's the end of that.'

On one level, there's an aspirational quality to having a Polo player. On another level, it's just a great shirt with lots of colors.

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

When I was growing up, officers in uniform were very impressive to me. They were doing a job. They were protecting our country; they were heroes. When you wear an old military jacket, there's some sort of connection to those qualities - to being strong, to being tough, to being a warrior.

I'm a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in the movie.

I loved Cary Grant. I got to know him and Audrey Hepburn. Here were these people I always liked and admired, and they were coming to my house.

As a kid, I wore a lot of my older brothers' hand-me-downs.

I never said to myself, 'I'm going to be the greatest.' I just wanted to do my own thing.