And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

The word "theatrical" makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?

The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.