I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

We're both cat lovers [with Marilyn Manson].

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.