Has your film and TV work this year inspired you to do more video projects?

Yeah. Well, I’ve always wanted to, I just didn’t have the money. Also, there was a bit of self-doubt I was feeling sometimes [about directing]. I was nervous that people would roll their eyes if I was to direct something, thinking that I didn’t know anything about it. So I’ve sort of been pulling back from [directing videos] when I could have done it, even though I knew I was ready to. It was just a matter of who I was going to do it with, and how.

I’ve worked with quite a few directors that are in a league of their own, but the one thing they have in common is that their voice is always present in their body of work. It is always them. David Lynch has always been a big influence on my life, since I was 15 years old. There’s no one that does that better than him.

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I can see a Lynchian vibe to this video.

I think my work will always have a bit of him in it, even if it’s not in the most obvious way. He’s the ultimate goal for me, in terms of the kind of artist I want to be. His work comes from the core of himself, and even if you don’t understand it, you can feel it. He’s open to his surroundings, and he knows what he wants.

With David Lynch, sometimes it doesn’t make sense to you in that exact moment. On Twin Peaks, you get the scene two days before. I didn’t know my [character’s] name until I got on set the first day. It’s kind of daunting, but it forces you to work out of a different part of your brain. You’re just doing exactly what is in front of you. I would walk [off set] and not really know what I said, but it started making sense as time went on. That’s what I love about his work — I can always interpret it in different ways. It always has new meaning.

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When can we expect to hear new music from you?

I’m going to put out a series of songs before my album. I have been dealing with health issues, so I don’t feel ready to put out an album, because it requires a lot more [work]. It’s an EP that is heavily visual, and the videos will all connect to each other in an abstract way. The visual component isn’t necessarily a concept, it was more of an excuse for me to make videos for all the songs. [laughs] I do think my songs stand on their own with or without a music video, but I feel that my work represents me more when I get to do the visual stuff [too].

It’ll be starting to come out in February, or March, for sure. There’s a group of people I’m working with, and it’s exciting because I’ve never written with so many girls before. There’s a girl that’s writing the EP with me. There are very specific things I wanted to write, and I could write on my own, but I knew she could bring another element of what I wanted to the music. I am experimenting a little more, and that’s why it’s an EP, too — [so I can] have fun with it.