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.

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

I have a lot of Japanese friends: I grew up in Vancouver, and there's this huge Japanese population over there.

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

I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.

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 love pop music, but I also love noise music, IDM - anything really, I get something out of most kinds of music. I just need to enjoy the process.