I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

Initially, I was very much concerned with having absolute control. But as time has gone by, I'm not. I mean, the whole first record was really just how I spent my free time: stoned and drinking coffee in my house, spending three hours on a song.

I've always admired people with really strong presences and felt that caring about the visual component of what you do is not intrinsically superficial or vain.

I like California a lot more than New York these days.

If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

I'm sure as I progress the sound may get cleaner but right now, I'm still interested in having it rough but never overwhelmingly so. I consider myself an amateur pop songwriter and I want that to come through, too.