We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.

Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.

I always thought music was open to all things.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.