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

I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

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'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.