By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
I'm against spending money to record.
Fashion can be a really powerful tool, but it's also a place where you can be totally humiliated and have your power taken from you.
If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.
Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.
I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.
Music is a religion to me and my friends.
My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.
Especially with music, people want confidence.
It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.
You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.
Most of my music videos were made for under $200.
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
I listen to a lot of medieval music.
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.
I'm not trained in music.
My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
