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By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward.

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'

Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.