I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

Especially with music, people want confidence.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.