I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.

There's something to be said for being classically trained on piano, but not having your whole makeup be tied to one instrument.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.