I think about my friends all the time when I'm designing. That's always an arbiter. Would Katy wear this? Would Rihanna wear this? Would Sia wear it? Would Miley wear it?

I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

I think my friends would say I'm pretty goal-focused but whimsical.

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.

I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!'