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

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

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.

I prefer making videos to making music.

If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

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