My days of being the tardy employee at the record store gave me a cultural and musical understanding that was more unique than if I'd just listened to garbage-y pop on the radio my entire life.
Music is such a big part of my life.
The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.
A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'
I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.
I think it's important that everyone understands that there's no real prescription to having an awesome life.
Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success.