I wanted to do something really visual and photogenic.

I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell.

Just balancing all the different projects, I mean I spent almost 10 years just doing Nasty Gal and I say "just" but that was a lot, and it's still a lot.

In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though it took a while to get here, I now call this gray area home. I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.

That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things.

It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur