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I'm fairly dramatic.
I like Yoda. I like the Ewoks.
No family is safe when I sashay.
iTunes is my favorite record store.
I have a really small and strange job history.
I saw 'Predators.' That was pretty good, actually.
I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.
I have a strange, not very traditional voice - I'm not Adele.
Taking care of myself is not instinctual for me. It feels very weird.
Good catsuits should have multiple zippers; they'll have a top and a bottom one.
If I drink coffee, I have to turn the lights off and lay down. I can't handle it.
I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.
I like to have fun! And everything that's good for you is not fun, and that bores me.
Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.
I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.
I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.
I feel kind of limited and locked into my body and brain - I'm not super into it all the time.
Blushes are fun. I like to do circles - like a Caravaggio painting almost, or Victorian looking.
When something is heartwarming and triumphant, and not corny or preachy, it's such a powerful thing.
On the first two albums, I essentially began with lyrics and placed the music underneath or around the words.
Honestly, I just wear what makes me feel good. It becomes political when you leave the house without changing.
I'm just very self-conscious about the way I look. I really am embarrassed of it, because I wish I wasn't like that.
I'm pretty sure I would have managed to over-share no matter what time period I was born in. It's a family thing, too.
Usually, like, anyone that would adopt, like, 'masc,' period, to describe them - it's a very phony, stereotypical masculinity.
I don't think I've actually ever had cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. I've had the Steak Diane. I don't like cheesecake!
When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.
I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.
I like Feist's music because it's really smart, but it's really free and soulful at the same time. Sometimes you only get one or the other.
My favorite movie is 'Dogfight' with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The ending is kind of bittersweet but so real and moving and complicated.
The thing is everything is good at the Cheesecake Factory. Everything's good. It's science-based. It's a formula; there's math. It's all good!
I do not work out regularly, but I do dance so much and jump around so much on stage, and I do it every day, so I feel like that's my exercise.
I don't dislike 'It' or 'Stranger Things,' but I'm just not as super into it, because, like, I've seen 'E.T.' a lot. And I've watched 'The Goonies.'
When I watch alien movies, I want to be the alien. I don't want to be the people that make first contact or anything; I just want to be that creature.
I don't know if I could write a pop song without at least a little touch of bite in it, and it's usually not a bite that most people would want to sing.
I went off at a person who threw a plastic thing at one of my shows once. After I shamed them, I realised it was a little lipstick and felt bad for days.
I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it, but I couldn't.
It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.
I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.
I feel like I've figured out the way that I can talk about things that are important to me and have my music and the way of performance be healing and be helpful.
Any tragic memory I have I also think is really funny. On any given day, I can think about how horrible something is and also how ridiculous and over-the-top it is.
I wasn't a hoarder, but I was on my way. I went to thrift stores and never didn't buy something. A lot of cat figurines, needlepoint, afghans. Grandma stuff, I suppose.
When I started to allow myself to not be locked into wearing men's clothes, things kind of opened up. It feels very kind to drape yourself in something that feels special.
I don't feel like I make sense in the world. I don't feel like I look right. I don't feel like I act right or do right. It's very frustrating to me that I just walk around with this all the time.
Loved 'Get Out,' super good from start to finish. I mean, it had everything you'd want in a movie. It was funny, scary, and it wasn't stupid. It was a smart movie but not in a fussy way. It was so good.
My mom is always asking why can't I make something nice? Because I'll make paintings, say, and they're just really bloody and angsty. So I wrote 'Dark Parts' because I wanted to write something nice for her.
I don't ever necessarily feel masculine or feminine. I just feel... I don't know. Like, when I'm wearing women's clothes, it's not like I'm dressing like a lady, a woman; it's just like I'm doing whatever I want.
My kitchen witch hangs above the sink in my kitchen. Some people think it's specifically so that you don't burn food when you cook, but I like to think that it's warding off evil spirits and bad things in general.
I feel trapped in my body. I want to be like like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy,' when she unlocks everything within her - I want to do that. I want to be the alien in 'Arrival' - a spitty, infinite-time-loop creature.
I felt like an outsider, so listening to a bunch of outsiders' music like Bjork and Patti Smith made me feel better. But at the same time, I didn't have anyone singing specifically 100% about things I could relate to.
I sort of trust myself as a musician to experiment more and to know when things are more effective when they're spare and when a song can hold up to a lot of different instrumentations. So I'm more willing to go for it.