Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.
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.
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.
The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.
I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
The most valuable live thing for me is when people look like they're having a good time.
If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile.
By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
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.
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.
I believe the human mind is a very fallible thing, but it's the only thing that I can really know, I guess.
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.
I like creating beauty out of scary things.
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.
If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
I'm a very nervous, shy person.
I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the file becomes cursed. I have to delete it.
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.
