Jose Gonzalez

I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.