Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

It's been systematic low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what they're entitled to. And as a result, these families are being destroyed.

Once you've switched that switch, then, though you notice that other people are great, you're just not interested.

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

We wanted to address the Latino female audience so the clothes have accents and detail from Latin culture. Erika designs the clothing in the U.S. and sends it to Colombia, her hometown, where her mother's company manufactures it.