In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was going to be one of those kids. I was like, "I'm never going to make a living at whatever I do." I just liked pretty things.

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.

When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated.