SANTIGOLD

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I hate musicals, especially film musicals.

My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

I feel like good music comes and goes in waves.

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

I'm kind of thinking that I might start trying to do some acting. I really enjoy role play.

I'm hoping to knock down the walls and broaden the lane a little bit more for music that's pop music at the heart of it.

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.

Anyway, I'd get bored with just doing music!

I wrote and recorded 'Outside the War' and 'Run from the Races' while I was nine months pregnant.

Around 2008 was a really special time culturally. There were a lot of cool things going on in music, in fashion, politically. It was a really hopeful time and a really creative time.

I like when pop is still good music; that's what I like.

When I go with different producers, and they've thought about what they want to do, I think they feel a little bit more free, because they know almost any sound will work on my record if we pull it together properly - so they don't feel so limited.

It's always cathartic for me to write music.

I love comedy, I love comedy... I think I'm funny!

The social media thing is insane: the constant engagement with the public, not even just your fans. It's not really about the music; it's about how you can be seen.

Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.

People can feel stuff in a different way when it's through music. If you can get some inspiration into a song, it might be received in a more impactful way than if you were just to have a conversation.

I'm the pickiest eater ever.

The reason I make music is so that I can influence people and inspire people, but I also want to make music that I feel happy about and that I feel is good. The challenge, which is why it's worth keeping going, is to constantly strive to figure out where the meeting place is.

I feel like David Byrne is a great example of someone who is always in the 'now' moment of music and finding reasons to be excited and always seeing what's special about it.