I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

The world that has made us can no longer contain us

When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I really love. But for the most part, overwhelmingly, my tribes are the surrealists and the storytellers, in song and literature.

I don't really make records chronologically.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

Love what you have and you'll have more love.