The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."

The passion for sneakers has been there since day one, but I never held onto them. I never shrunkwrap them. It's always been about getting it, buying it, wearing it, showing it and moving on to the next one.

I try to make Play Cloths really representative of me and my designers they look at my evolution as an artist and in fashion and they [zero] in to different details. I come into the office some days and they're like, 'What are those?" [I say,] "[These] are Philip Lim...[I'll] have on Philip Lim sweats and they go and put their spin on it.

As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you. And that's not true.

Of course fashion is definitely playing a part.

When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

At the end of the day I want to wear everything.