I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.
I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.
When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
Punk music is rebellious.
I'm a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.
I take references from the past and flip them.
A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.
A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - it's more personal, and your friends generate it.
Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.
I can pull off anything; I have the height and the attitude. The only thing I can't wear is a leotard, but I can wear anything else.
If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.
I've made sure to always update my web properties constantly - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, my Hypebeast blog... making sure I divided content across all of them to keep each outlet fresh to keep people coming back.
People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.
We're a fast-moving, needy species.
I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.
I can't really change for a climate. I've got to be Theophilus London in any weather.
I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.
I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.
I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.
I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.
