From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it and rock'n'roll and it has an urgency to it.

I don't like to be labeled to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music but it's counter-productive.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup their clothes music live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously don't take too seriously.

I think I'm a music fan before anything else.

From the beginning I knew intuitively that if nothing else music was safe and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion and now well technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't I don't really see a point to it.