Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.

I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.

I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.

The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

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