I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.

I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.