Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

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'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.