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

I don't even wear shoes with heels because I hate making a noise when I walk and people looking at me.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

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 grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

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!