I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.

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

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

The groove can go for like three days - once I'm in it it will just keep going until I'm totally exhausted. But that's how I like to work, I like to be away from everyone and just get in the zone, and stay there for as long as I can keep it there.

My great fear is that I'm the ultimate shallow person. I think about this kind of thing a lot, and about this phenomenon in our culture where people identify themselves with their interests. I've been trying not to think about it too much. It used to really upset me when people called me "witch house."

I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

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