What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.

I view my hair and clothes as functional art.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.