“The sound of this album is the most informed by the influence of the people directly surrounding me … It’s about finally feeling okay with not feeling okay.”

“‘Wild animals in my life’ is an article about a zookeeper. I’m really interested in reading things completely out of context, kind of involuntarily applying them, when your head is really somewhere else.

“The evolution of styles from the years when options for punk flyers were limited to stencils, spray paint, and rub-off letters, to the early days of desktop publishing and graphic design”

“I never grow tired of that, ranting on tape. Things start happening when you turn off the self-censorship antennas.”

“It’s kind of strange, kind of odd. But that’s just the way it went”

“The best part of this is that its still anonymous. I can go wherever I go and people don’t know who I am … I get to make things, people like it, but I still get to go to Homestyle Buffet and no one knows who I am.”

“So much of the movie is about mood … It’s not a particularly dramatic or you know, professionally-acted place, but I don’t really like movies or TV shows like that. Who wants to be around professional actors? I live in LA. They are the worst people.”

“I did a conference once (the only woman on a four-person panel) and the moderator guy was like, “What’s it like to like to be a woman and do what you do?”, and I was like, ‘Don’t ask that. I’d rather just talk about what were here to talk about—how we produce and our workflow.’ It was the first time I’d ever really come back at someone like that.”

Homeshake tour Japan with Jerry Paper and Eola in January 2015 and captured their time there on film.

“It felt right at the time to scroll through that many different things. For me, it was always just searching for something that sounded like it was passionate and had struggle involved, somehow.”

“It is important to find ways to pull ourselves and each other out of this one dimensionality, especially if we are being pressured into one dimensional interactions with people, I need to very consciously fight the way that we have been programmed to tried people one dimensionally.”