There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.

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

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

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

I like to make people dream and think and imagine and learn and study. Nowadays, music is so literal - it's telling you, "This is how it is," and my music's the opposite. I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know.