When I was very very young seven years old I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I majored in fashion design in school and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing jewelry and stuff like that so this was just a step for me in that direction.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point if you're lucky you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

I became an art major took every art class my school had to offer. In college I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Well I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

Ultimately life is disease death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

We live in grief for having left the womb for having left the teat then school then home. In my case it was leaving marriages and the death of my wife.