As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before I was through my teens, I had been introduced and exposed to artists who would, in later years, become legendary.
I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.
My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
I became famous almost before I had a craft.
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.
I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.
I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.