I Get Offers To Do Huge-budget Music

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.

I Like Creating Beauty Out Of Scary Things.

One Thing With Montreal Is It's So Cold And Everyone's So Poor And Beer's So Cheap: If You Go To A Show You Have To Brave The Weather To Get There. So You Show Up And Everyone's Soaking Wet - There's A Sense Of 'i Trekked Through Three Feet Of Snow To Get Here!' I Think There's A Kind Of Camaraderie That Arises Out Of That, That's Important To Me As Well.

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 Love Humanity, I Love The Way People Look