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.

When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

I'm so sick of my own music that I don't know if I can edit another video, which involves hundreds of hours of listening to your own song again and again and again. It becomes so grating after a while.

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