My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black."

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

Music definitely inspires my design all the time.

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.

I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.