I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.

I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.