If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.

I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.

Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.