I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.

I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it's boring.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

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.

I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.