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

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'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 very interested in the visual world because I'm also very interested in feminism. I find that the world of watching takes us into the most psychotic state of, like, "You are this one person, but you have to become another person to see these images."

On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

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