Andre Benjamin

I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn. ”

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more. ”

I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you. ”

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that. ”

The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk. ”

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like. ”

When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again. ”

It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you. ”