I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

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My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

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All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

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I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

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It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

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I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

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To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

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