I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I listen to, that I ingest, is a lot different than what I put out. I'm always becoming obsessed with the next phase of my musical vocabulary.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.