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

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

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.

There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

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 believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.