The Way That You Present

Miami Is Just Really Fun Whenever I Go There. It's Like This Post-apocalyptic Barbie World: Everything Is Pink, And There're Palm Trees Everywhere. But Then There Are Also All These People In Crazy Sunglasses, Warehouses With Sick Parties Where All The Girls Are Covered In Spikes And Black Leather. It's A Very Weird Place.

I Think You Can Hear, When You Listen To Someone's Music, Whether Or Not They're Enjoying Making It - It's So Great To Hear Music Where You Can Tell The Person Making It Was Just Having A Blast. That's Really Important To Me As Far As My Process Goes. That's Probably Why My Music Ends Up Being So Poppy!

I Usually Like To Get People In Because I Don't Have A Band Or Anything. In Cities Where I Have Friends, I Try To Get Them To Come Out And Dance For Me.

I Grew Up Going To Punk Shows, That Kind Of Thing - I Don't Wanna Make Pop Punk! - But I Like The Idea Of People Going Totally Crazy And It Being Really Intimate, Loud And Super-aggressive, But Combining That With Pop Music.

My Manager Lives On My Block; Four Of The Apartments In My Apartment Complex Of Seven Are People I Know. It's A Really Close-knit Community, And Almost Everyone On These Few Blocks Are Artists Or Graphic Designers, Because We Live Right On The Cusp Of A Warehouse District.