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

The thing that I realize about fashion now, fashion and music, now versus back then is that you had to have fresh records and be fresh.

Fashion right now, people are so...everything is driven by the aesthetic.

I was going through a time where I was like man I wanted all of my clothes to be totally understated and I would do pop color with hats from a line called Ale et Ange out of New york City. They created all these hats and I just thought they were super fresh and the only way that I could really get them across...I was just like, 'Let me make everything mute and just put on the hat.'

Sonically, musicians always go above and beyond in our efforts to disrupt radio. It's always about being different. Our radio is never conventional anyway.

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.

I try to mix the fashion with the music and what's going on at the time...at the time [when my uniform was black on black] I was putting together an album, my album was my name at the time; very minimal, very stripped down, very everything but it still had and have to have some level of pop.