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

I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

Especially with music, people want confidence.