I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

- Stephen Sprouse

I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I co…

- Stephen Sprouse

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

- Stephen Sprouse

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown i…

- Stephen Sprouse

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Pa…

- Stephen Sprouse

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

- Stephen Sprouse

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

- Stephen Sprouse

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

- Stephen Sprouse

Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.

- Stephen Sprouse