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.

It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

I've making videos since I was seventeen I was originally discollecting vintage hmmm... footages from different archives and setting moving pictures to classical music clips that meant a lot to me. Maybe there were places I have been where nice things have happened. I had a vision of making my life a work of art and I was looking for people who also felt that way.

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

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do