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.

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and all those things very early on.

It's definitely evolved from where it started - for 'Treat Me Like Fire,' I wanted something extremely wild because I was going to be running through the woods and I wanted it really nappy and crazy.

[New York] gives you room to be weird; you can be yourself and you can wear whatever you want. No one is really going to judge you because everyone is doing their own thing.

Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

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