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 couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then I started recording and writing properly. I recorded lots of voices, not just my own. I was interested in people speaking and singing English and trying out words.

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

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

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