Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.

I had these glorified ideas about San Francisco and its drug culture - I thought inspiration would just hit me and I would get these San Francisco drugs in my system and all of a sudden an amazing record would come out. But that's not really what happened at all.