“Since I’ve had the jacket, I’ve asked other people to try it on and it’s been thrilling to me. Because they look great, but everyone looks entirely different in it. It depends on who you are, not your name, but your attitude, your posture, your human moves. It’s cool to see different personalities under that leather. Some personalities are bigger than others and the jacket looks like it’s always been there. On other people, the jacket is bigger, envelopes them, inspires some other way of being. That’s just as cool and interesting to see. People are excited by it. I get a lot of comments. I get asked a lot where I got it. A lot. It’s hard to explain the inspiration for it, because I think there were a lot of different things. But it was just one idea. A drawing, a feeling, I knew exactly what I wanted. Hoping other people will like it too, is a thought that comes much much later. I have to love it first and I do.”

“I don’t really know. Like I said, it’s personal. It’s private. It’s about the individual. there are lot of cool looking musicians out there. A whole band, that’s a stretch. Usually creative people don’t exactly look like one another. You want uniqueness always, with music, with art and with style. David Bowie has a thing. Keith Richards has a thing. Neil Young has thing. Johnny Cash had a thing. Don Van Vliet had a thing. Jim Morrison, Elvis, had a thing. Nick Cave has a thing. Iggy Pop, Joan Jett, Jimmy Paige have a thing. Marilyn Manson, Lemmy have a thing. Kurt Cobain had a thing, Patti Smith, Prince, Jennifer Herrema have a thing. Kim Gordon, Tom Waits, have a thing… I mean, I could go through my record collection and pick people out of music that are vastly unique, and can’t be mistaken for anyone else. I think it has more to do with personality and that personality being so unique that it pours out in visuals. The inside gets outside and you see it, and it’s astounding and it’s beautiful, and it can’t be captured or copied. Fashion follows music. I don’t think they go together hand and hand. I think fashion is always running to catch up if they’re after the musician.”

“I’m in Nashville at the moment. I’ve been working on music for a new Kills record and driving around the country, experiencing the highway from behind the wheel again, instead from the back of the tour bus. I’ve been painting a lot too, which I’ve missed. It’s been great getting back into it.”