I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

I sang "Patience" by Guns N' Roses for my sixth grade talent show and I wanted to be an actor when I was younger. It was all very, very theatrical. It was only later that I separated the two and thought of myself as quite the opposite of an actor.

I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

Funnily enough, I feel the most free to be myself when I'm not doing my solo project. Whenever I'm in a situation when it's a side thing or it's something not so infused with my ego. When I'm all over everything, it's a big responsibility and half the time leaves me in some weird nether state of insecurity and doubt.

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.