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

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

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.

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.

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

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

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.