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

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 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 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."

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.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.