If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

Globally, proving myself working well with Adidas, showing my work could be globally distributed and loved and appreciated and still be challenging. Maybe I'm one of the first people on a larger scale to make more challenging and more unique items.

I have to birth those ideas. Those designs have to come into the world. It's not only my goal, it's my reason for being on the planet. If I'm not doing them, then I'm not fulfilling my calling. It's very instinctual for me.

Working at Moschino has been great because I just have to deliver when I have to deliver.

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.