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.

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

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.

Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

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.