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So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

For me, Gothic is something from my youth, when I had a heavy metal phase.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

I'm not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I'm always interested in it as a way of getting at larger ideas or important meaning. And you don't see that as much as you'd think in the history of horror cinema. A lot of times, it's scariness for scariness' own sake.

I write alternative, folkie pop. It's very acoustic.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.