I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if its worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.
You want everything to go right. You've just got to let yourself be free and have good energy.
I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.
I am more into guys fashion, but Im inspired by womens fashion in a weird way.
Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!
I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.
I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.
I dont want to be easily defined.
Ive 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.
I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].
Believe in yourself and believe in magic.
The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.
You gotta learn your body, how clothes fit on you.
I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.
Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.
The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month.
Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.
I love N.Y.C.! I cant think of any individual that hates New York.
Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all.
I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!
Im a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me?
I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.
When I was younger, I wasnt thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know thats not what the average person does, but Ive gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.
I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.
Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.
Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.
I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.
I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great.
Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks.
I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.
Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!
I love fashion week. It has great energy and vibe.
I like connecting with people through technology.
Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are!
I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.
The first time I really listened to an album and thought, This album is mine, was Kanyes Late Registration.
I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits - same color trousers, same color shirt.
While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.
A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they dont even know it.
I take references from the past and flip them.
Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.
I keep a creative group around me.
Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.
My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions.
The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.
I love to hear a cool ambient sound at runway shows. It creates a good energy.
Whatever I receive from a higher power gets me pumped, which gets the crowd pumped, which gets me more pumped, and then we're just pumped up.
You should treat your body like a canvas.
I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.
My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.
I admire traveling; I appreciate it a lot.
I dont want no mail. Send me a Facebook message.
My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.
A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag - its more personal, and your friends generate it.
Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.
Dior jeans are one of my favorites.
Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.
A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.
I like Jeremy Scott, and he has some really dope sneakers.
I collect a lot of clothes when I travel around the world.
On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.
Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!
Dressing up, for me, is looking like an idiot.
To me, my style is comfortable.
As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game.
I'm pretty brand-less. If I wear a brand, then you can't tell. I'm not about the logos.
Ive got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.
When youre 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.
What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.
Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
I think its more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.
New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night.
I connect to SpongeBob in a way; like, thats the homie. He can chill on the corner with me.
I dont have a license, but I do drive.
I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.
I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses - people recognize me now.
I want to produce the best popular music I can.
Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.
I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose you lose to gain.
I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.
After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.
When I want to choose to work with someone, you know, I definitely have to do some research on their background and how they were raised as people.
I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.
Im a big fan of pop music - I think Marvin Gaye was pop music; things like that.
I am international. When I put out my second mixtape, we did four tours and a tour overseas.
I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!
The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately its starting to get a little saturated.
I like to go to the airport looking stylish - you never know who youll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking.
I wanted to only collab with women for Lovers Holiday.
I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job.
Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it.
It leaves a good legacy to have five records.
Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.
When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.
I admire natural, untouched beauty.
Some people have style without even knowing it!
In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls.
I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.
I love an art-school girl. I mean dont we all?
I can't wait until I touch the stage, I'm going to catch the spirit and lose my mind.
I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.
I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.
