From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast.

There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

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 like creating beauty out of scary things.

It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.

I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.

I'm tired of being considered vapid for liking pop music or caring about fashion as if these things inherently lack substance or as if the things I enjoy somehow make me a lesser person.