The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.

You need to have honest things in the world. Even if people don't understand it, if it's coming from you, that's already important.

I quit piano and violin because it felt too rigid. It was just my thing, something I fell in love with from a very early age.

I was working on a piece for one of the things I was dancing to and I needed to have original music. I didn't know where to begin, I'm so bad at computers, and I remembered that he actually made music. I asked Astro Raw if he'd be interested in scoring and he said yes.

Lion Babe, on a work day, is definitely a process. I obviously could do it by myself, but I definitely prefer not to. It's a lot of hair. I used to start with little pieces, and then it just got bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

South Africa was something that just kind of hit me.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.