The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.

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.

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

When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden people don't respect you, and you have to start being a lot more aggressive than you would normally be.

I prefer making videos to making music.

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.