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.

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark.

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

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

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."