It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.

You know how some trees have those ear mushrooms that just grow off, and you could live on one of those mushrooms and not realize that there was stacks and stacks of others? That's how I describe music scenes in New York. That's one of the trippiest things about living here - just how many parallel universes there are that you can be completely unaware of.

I'm gonna really enjoy bringing out the catsuit once in a while.

I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.