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.

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

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

I'm just very obsessed with Japanese stuff in general.

I've never lived outside of Canada, so I've been really cold my entire life. Most of my memories are coloured by the fact that I was really cold, just... all the time!