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No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I was always interested in the fringes of culture and society and in expressing myself in a distinctively different way, like always rooting for the underdog, that kind of thing.

I have what some people consider to be a 'hippie' mentality.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don't believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan because I do things my own way and I am free. So, yes, maybe I should say that I am Peter Pan - although I am much more of a man.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

In my personal life, I have always been bold, from the clothes I wear to how I talk. For me, boldness does not necessarily mean stripping. I think people have wrong notion about boldness. For me, bold is being different.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

I wouldn't want to even try to begin to describe our customer, as I think she likes a certain amount of anonymity. I try to offer clothes that allow that. I myself do not like being defined so readily, so I imagine that she is similar?

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.

There is a secret hippie within me.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

I've always been in a rebel.