It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

What I like about houses like Givenchy. It's easy to pull from. With Givenchy you can accessorize to build anything, any look.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.

In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’