I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.

I feel like, growing up, yes, I loved looking at fashion. I loved Tumblr.

Fat' was a terrible, terrible word for me growing up. When I was able to reclaim it and call myself fat and identify with it, that was the best moment ever. That was the moment I really started to feel free.

We need to overcome the stereotype that genders aren't fluid.

The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.

Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that's empowering, and not detrimental to social progress. It's up to us to maximize the good and minimize the bad.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.

Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno that took production into a whole new direction. That really influenced us, and pushed us to find that early sound we had.