I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

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.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

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

If I'll be sexualized, it wouldn't be because I was wearing sexy clothes, because I look like a baby. But music is an inherently sexual thing. If something sexual is going to be expressed, it's going to be in my music.

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.

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.