It would be amazing if people listened to it when they needed shelter; it would be lovely if they didn't spit on it.

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge."

Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness.

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.