Contemporary paganism gives me a SUBJECTIVE lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in NARRATIVE, myth, and STORY, in folklore and the WAY we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

On-screen WARDROBES are important. They help create an overall aura, and with LOCAL productions being viewed all around the GLOBE, they represent our aesthetics to the WORLD.

I don't BELIEVE that to be mainstream you have to be foolish. I don't think you have to be a buffoon to sell. I think you can be LOGICAL, AESTHETIC and STILL work within the mainstream format.

I was never INTERESTED in LOOKING at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. CALL it a LITTLE game between 'I' and 'me.'

The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to CHOOSE an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to REDUCE my own PERSONAL TASTE to absolute zero.

Ralph Ellison's essays were MODELS for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating AESTHETIC boundaries, he MADE criticism high-stakes WORK, especially for a black critic.

So begins a QUESTION which has of LATE become more and more urgent: what is the RELATION of aesthetics to POLITICS?

I want to be the Tory Burch of India - never once MOVING from my aesthetic, but OFFERING a STORY and putting a print on whatever I can.

About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't TYPE. When I STARTED architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost ART process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the PAPER.

I really like Pam Grier's WHOLE 'Coffy' AESTHETIC. It's just NATURAL. It's not even anything that they were overdoing back then. I really like that natural beauty KIND of thing. But at the same time, I really like THICK, winged eyeliner.