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

When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

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