Follow no path. Make your own.

It's okay to stand on your own two feet and to be different, to be yourself.

Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you're awake.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].

I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.