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

I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.

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

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.

It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless.

I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.

I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.