I was raised in a Catholic household and went to a Catholic school, and my childhood brain perceived medieval Catholicism as an action movie: There's this crazy omnipresent guy who can destroy you at any moment.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

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.

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

By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

If I think about what other people are thinking when I'm making music, I just can't do it. It's too withheld - I need to go totally over the top, and then kind of clean it up a bit and make it more reasonable after the fact.