If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.

As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.

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

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.

When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.

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.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.