Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.
Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.
I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their cars. Every time I exit my home, I have company.
I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.
Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.
When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.
I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
I love coming in and changing magazines.