There's a lot of matte sparkle, ... It's not as glittery as we've done before, but it has beautiful sheen.

There's a lot of matte sparkle. It's not as glittery as we've done before, but it has beautiful sheen.

We airbrushed satin to make it look like chinchilla fur, ... We used silk and synthetic threads to imitate ermines and fluffy fabrics and then used silk chiffon and quilted it to look like sheared beaver.

Because of the photographic reproduction, it can only be printed on synthetic, so (the garments are) all polyesters, which feel amazing, ... For a while, polyester just mimicked fine fabrics so there was really no reason for it to exist, but now they have made such great leaps such as inventing truly new hands, beautiful new drapes, new possibilities that were never really there before.

We airbrushed satin to make it look like chinchilla fur. We used silk and synthetic threads to imitate ermines and fluffy fabrics and then used silk chiffon and quilted it to look like sheared beaver.

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination.