My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

Love is horrible. I mean, when you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness.

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful.

Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

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.