I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.
I’m just trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I’m willing to do that as an entertainer. But I’m not willing to give up my actual self.
I appreciate my music is famous, but I’d rather my face wasn’t so that I can just live a normal life.
If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.
I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.
I’ll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don’t have to be famous.
When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous ‘something artistic,’ that they would love me more.
Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going – but not If people boo, ’cause that’s just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment.
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, ‘Live like tomorrow doesn’t exist. Like it’s my birthday. Like it’s the last day of my life’… Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.
I’m really visually stimulated more than anything. I don’t really listen to music. I’m more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.
My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play – which is a play on Men at Work.
I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, ‘Wow. This is fun.’
I used to be addicted to ‘Reader’s Digest’ growing up. I would read the stories about love, and I guess that’s where I became a hopeless romantic. I draw from that a lot.