When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.

You know you’re really famous when there’s rumors about you being gay.

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.

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

Alessandro [Michele] has really done the impossible. He's taken this classic brand [Gucci] and really turned it completely around and taken it in a direction that was so unexpected. [Alessandro and I] met and became friends here in L.A., and then we got to know each other and he asked me to do this. It was really organic and not the way this stuff normally happens.

When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.

I'm constantly failing, but not upset about it. I think there's a great deal to learn from that.