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.

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've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

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

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