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I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.

Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.