Every single organization - or career, for that matter - exists on three levels: WHAT you do, HOW you do it and WHY you do it.
Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.
Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.
All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.
It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.
I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.
I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.
I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
The real secret of success is enthusiasm. Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited. When they get excited they make a success of their lives.