We're always working on new music and now that we have our own studio space we have tried to stay focus and really explore. But we have projects out that we are super proud of and want to keep building on that.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

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.

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 love writing to my little sister. It's a very nice, easy kind of way I always find inspiration.

In New York everyone just kind of knows each other.

I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair - I'd had brown, straight extensions forever - and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.