I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.