I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

My style is pretty clean, classic, and elegant, with some elements to make it a little funkier. If you see me on a normal day, I'm usually in a T-shirt and jeans, maybe with some cool sneakers, but I'm pretty basic.

Experience is a great teacher.

There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.

I spent many years trying to fit in and do things the way I thought I was supposed to - trying to be perceived the way I thought people wanted to see me. I grew up in a very religious household and wasn't taught to feel comfortable or good about my sexuality, so it feels great to be able to say things the way I want to say them.

I've kept going to therapy to find out why my perspective is so skewered and why I'm filled with rage. It's so I can live in this world alongside these other people who seem to be what is desired and what the world wants.

When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human.

I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.

I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him.

I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.

I don't know about the totally happy album, though. I don't know if that will ever come from me.

If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.

I think I have a great voice, but it's not special enough to be remembered. But what's special about me is much more than just my voice.

Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.

I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I have a great amount of compassion for people who feel that they don't fit in, or people who feel they have trouble finding their place in this world.

I felt like a failure for so long because I wasn't able to access myself in the way I knew I would have if I was going to make music that mattered. I knew I was going to have to learn how to be honest.

In my family, I was loved, but only if I would fight this gay thing and not let it take over me. I would be loved unconditionally if I could be cured of my 'sickness,' but it certainly would not be OK if I couldn't.

I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

My music is definitely very personal. The songs are about moments, snapshots of everyday life, and about having one's say, or at least feeling like one has had one's say.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.