My mom wasn't thrilled about me being in a band, because she very correctly said she couldn't see any sort of stability in it.
My first concert was Third Eye Blind.
I think women are taught in the music industry that once you're 35, you've expired, and I'm here to prove that factually incorrect.
Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.
I want to keep different options for different futures open all the time.
With each project I'm always pushing for clarity.
So, anyway, I think the format of love songs for me stopped becoming about people and started becoming about life.
When I came up in a band - not just in a band, but a kind of underground DIY community - there was such a clear cut distinction between what pop was and what not pop was in very simplistic terms.
I guess I've gotten older and more sentimental, and I've realized that the love song is just the modern equivalent of a devotional.
I think there was a real lane built for indie bands during the time when Chairlift came up.
I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song.
Panging is the kind of sharp pain you feel inside when you're reminded of some kind of unattended need or something that you've neglected.
I kind of think that's the best way to operate; even when I'm in sessions writing with other artists, I'm always pulling from the kind of emotions that are the most raw in my own life and offering them up in the studio.
I would enjoy seeing anyone else sing 'Caroline Shut Up.' That would be interesting. I would give that one away, actually, which is funny, even though it's very personal.
My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play Enya at the house to calm me down and soothe me as a kid.
When I was in middle school, I loved Egyptian mythology.
I think as I get older, I'm just going to start making smooth, new age music - no joke.
I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both my parents speak Japanese fluently, so I suppose it would feel like a tradition.
If you want to know what the DJ is playing, just ask. You don't have the right to stick your head in front of my screen as if you're an expert leaning over the shoulder of the apprentice.
Music feels so environmental to me, especially the process of working with synths or mixing. I started thinking about music as a psychological landscape as well. It's a landscape of the mind.
