Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Gok Wan

It always feels like it's not yours - the fame, success and money. It feels like it's on loan and I think it always will.

There are two types of woman - those who don't do anything with accessories and those who wear so many that they look like a Christmas tree.

We had quite an unconventional family life because my parents ran a Chinese restaurant.

I would never impose my styling on anyone on Christmas Day because it's the one day of the year I need off as well.

My first role in catering was front-of-house, at five or six, at my parents' restaurant in Leicester. Me and my brother were dressed in tuxedos and we'd greet guests and be paraded around like show ponies.

I might do the odd grilled tuna steak, but I don't think you can call that cooking - it's more like heating up, isn't it?

If you have an amazing sparkly dress or dramatic outfit, make sure you keep the accessories simple.

When I was working as a stylist, I was called in to meet the band All Saints. I opened the door, tripped and landed in Nicole's lap. Not a good start, but I got the job.

I realized I could affect how people treated me by how I acted.

I do have a camp side to my personality, but I also have a 'Top Gear'-loving, football-loving side.

Food is a language that my entire family have used to communicate with each other.

With all its glamour, drama and of course the royalty, there is nothing quite like Royal Ascot.

David Bowie and Elvis Presley are my style icons.

The U.K. perception of beauty is totally out of whack.

I'm very lucky because I have people that look after me and manage my time for me.

I joke that I came out of my mother with chopsticks in my hands. But one of my earliest memories is of my dad forcing me to learn to eat with chopsticks.

If I could wear sport-luxe all the time, I would.

I love clothes but I don't take it too seriously.

I've always thought I'd have kids.

You know what, I'm just grateful to be offered relatively long-term contracts for as long as a year at a time.

Coco Chanel had that famous line about when you go out the house take off one accessory, so I kind of live by that rule.

Fashion can be extremely fickle so you need to work on your image, self-worth and confidence.

Shopping for weddings can be really stressful, and not just for the bride!

When I was first in the fashion industry, I would get hired for a day and be thankful that they wanted me back the following day. There was no long-term security.

My dad taught us all a very strong work ethic so I'm constantly thinking, 'When is this going to end? When am I going to lose my appeal and have to do something else?'

I hate being on my own, I rely on my friends and my family and my job to keep me occupied and to make me feel comforted and wanted and needed and all that stuff.

It's absolute hell having no money - I've been there and I do not want to go back there again.

Oddly I've been DJ-ing for many years, actually, but not many people know about it because if you go and DJ in a club and you've got 2000 people in there, then obviously about 2000 people know that you're a DJ.

There's a lot of psychology involved in my work, a lot of mind play going on when you try and convince someone to feel good about their bodies and have the confidence to walk down a catwalk naked when, initially at least, it's probably the last thing they'd plan to do.

I dropped out of my drama course at university after a year and just floated from rubbish job to rubbish job, with no self-esteem and no idea what I wanted to do.

I learned all my life skills working in a restaurant. How to have a relationship, manage, develop a brand, dress people, make people confident - everything.

You get the real me on TV.

I love tracksuits because they're so comfortable.

Growing up without much money made me more ambitious.

I was born two months premature with jaundice, twisted legs and a hole in my heart.

I'm a neurotic attention-seeker.

Suddenly fame came along and I started getting attention, and it was so foreign to me that it took a long time to get my head around it.

If I'm writing a book or doing something where I've got a lot of time at home, then cooking is always a really good distraction for me from what I've got to do.

If you are going to splurge out and have a month of bad eating and drinking, that's absolutely fine as far as I'm concerned but what you need to do is get some balance to make sure that you are looking after yourself and you are getting your five-a-day, making sure you're getting your minerals, protein.

My non-Chinese food favorite... can I say sushi? It's still Asian.

I have severe OCD and I like fun too much.

My family is normally 'Shameless' meets 'The Royle Family.'

My biggest problem is not acting my age.

You can teach people to sew, set up a fashion shoot, send emails, deal with the media, but what you can't teach is a sense of style. You've either got it or you haven't, it's as simple as that.

I thought I wanted to get into hair and make-up, which I did for a short time, and then I fell in with a stylist by chance and very soon fell in love with everything about the fashion industry.

That's my ideal man - a bit geeky but strong.

I describe our family as the Transformers. Separately, we can do our own thing, but the minute we start locking in, we become a force to be reckoned with. We become Optimus Prime.

Well, I've always been quite experimental with how I look.

I make sure that I've got a very healthy perspective on what I look like and what I should look like and what makes me happy.

People assume I must have this fantastic body that I'm dying to show off but the truth is I have body issues - just like virtually everybody else.

I've always had an amazing connection with women - a real love of them.

I get very, very jealous if I see people who are dressed better than me.

You can go one of two ways with festive dressing. All of the sparkles can be about the outfit or the accessories but not both.

It was rare to see an Asian man and white woman together when my parents fell in love. They went through years of persecution and harassment.

I come from quite a heavy matriarchal family, and my older sister was a huge influence on me.

One piece of advice: unless you're an electrician, do not wear your mobile on your belt.

My dad, John, was from China and he met mum after he moved here in the 1960s.

I'm thick, actually. But it doesn't bother me. I think I'm really clever.

Many Euro-Asian homes have a cupboard devoted to Chinese ingredients. The smell cannot be contained and it's my earliest memory. I both object to and love it.

I don't think it's right for anyone to turn around and say 'stop drinking so much, don't eat fried food.'