I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.

I've thought about bands or performers who appear from nowhere: You come out of the greenroom in this secure little unit, then you do this thing and you're shielded from everybody. I'm thinking of brilliant people, like Mariah Carey, who have no interaction. They interact with the audience at the time of the live thing but there's no build up and there's no afterward.

I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some relation of how physical that stack becomes. When I'm editing it together, the density of the papers is an indicator to be like, "You need to stop."