I love humanity, I love the way people look

I approach music - and this sounds crazy - as though I'm Phil Spector, and I'm cranking out these pop stars and forcing them to do all this stuff - except they're all me. But I'm not, like, transgendered.

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.

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

Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.

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

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