Even though I wasn't making a lot of money I was enjoying what I was doing.

I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew how to do, graphic design.

The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.

Even when I was just designing T-shirts people really gravitated to them.

If you don't have customers to sell to, you can't commit to anything with textile factories or manufacturing factories because you don't know if you'll be able to sell the quantities they're asking you to fill.

Even though I wasn't making a lot of money I was enjoying what I was doing.

I wasn't able to afford high-end brands or any of that, so I grew up on streetwear.