I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.

The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.