I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again, it feels really boring.

- Katie Stelmanis

Usually the song is totally done. I'll do absolutely everything, backing vocals - everything - but in gibberish. A lot of times its based on the mumb…

- Katie Stelmanis

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

- Katie Stelmanis

I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session, they were like "Can you …

- Katie Stelmanis

When I was growing up, until I was 18 or 19, I was totally invested in the classical music world. I had no concept of anything else. The closest thin…

- Katie Stelmanis

In political sense, it doesn't really matter what I do on my own, but it's so important to rally some sort of collectiveness and reignite a collectiv…

- Katie Stelmanis

As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously always doing. I think o…

- Katie Stelmanis

I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a track probably from 1980 - …

- Katie Stelmanis