I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.

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

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.

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

When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!"

When you meet someone, a friend, who's living out on the road, or living semi-homeless, or leading their life in a radically different way, it makes you think about your own life in a really critical way and feel completely disoriented.