Growing up, at high school, we all used to wear Champion garments, which, in America, are standard-issue gym uniforms.

I just wanna start a brand that inspires and is geared towards youth.

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

The best New Year's resolution I ever made was probably to, like, pursue fashion in the spirit that I have now.

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.

I'm very conscious of the fact that I devoted my life to recording music, recordings and writing songs.

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.