Caroline Polachek quotes:

When I was 10, I would hear songs like "I Love You Always Forever" by Donna Lewis on the radio, and I want to make stuff that a 10 year old might hear coming out of the radio and think, "Yeah! I love this!"

Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.

I'm gonna really enjoy bringing out the catsuit once in a while.

I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace.

You'd have to be kind of a bonehead not to feel pressure.

No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.