Electra: "I get really bored of things that aren’t extreme in some way. The things I get the most excited about are the things that are so uncool that nobody wants to touch."

Electra: "I don’t like taking things too seriously."

Electra: "I like to use the ADHD to my advantage, where you’ll literally hear something through the walls, a baseline in the other room, and you’ll get an idea for a melody."

Electra: "But the core of my being is not gendered at all – even ‘gender fluid’ is a form of identity that can put somebody in a box."

Electra: "Audience and purpose play a large part in the work that I do and in feeling like it’s connected to a community. The Internet absolutely has been a huge part of that."

Electra: "I’m not a woman dressing as a man, it’s so much more complex than that."

Electra: "I don’t believe in a lot of the same politics that I used to believe in. I used to identify as libertarian and I was brainwashed by a teacher in high school into that ideology."

Electra: "I think humour is one of the most powerful political tools."

Electra: "I went to college, read Karl Marx and a whole bunch of books that opened my mind. Now I identify as a leftist, and the educational aspect is still something that’s core to my work as an artist."

Electra: "The kind of artists that I’m the most interested in are the ones who are always going to develop their sound and not get stuck."

Electra: "So it’s easier for me to make a song like that than it is for me to be like: let’s dig deep into myself, and pull out some subconscious association and poetry."

Electra: "I’m not romantic at all."

Electra: "That’s something that’s always interested me: how to take complex ideas and put them into a catchy, accessible format that is potentially accessible to anybody."

Electra: "As a product of human thought, libertarianism is a very interesting thing to study, but it is really poisonous."

Electra: "My work about the history of the clitoris, sexuality, gender – all of those videos were also early work that I think of as ‘before,’ but it was influential for me. I still think about my music in a lot of the same ways even though it’s not as explicitly educational."

Electra: "I watch a lot of documentaries about people coming out of cults, because I really relate to that."

Electra: "I was brainwashed to think the state was evil, that you can’t use government to do anything good, because it is an institution of force."

Electra: "I love geometry and formal logic, I’m really analytical."

Electra: "These cis white heterosexual men feel disenfranchised, disempowered, and like the world is against them. The solution is to stop and think why those people feel that way, what is causing them to take on hateful ideas like anti-immigration or racism, or other forms of right-wing populism. The left could be better at this. We need to look at the causes of those ideologies in order to be able to combat them."

Electra: "I think humour is a healthy way to challenge people with the same ideas and introduce them to new ones."

Electra: "It has to start from a place of empathy and understanding in order to be able to reach out and ultimately hope to heal, or convert people. I think that it’s actually very important to face head-on the things we don’t agree with rather than staying in echo chambers. Right now we’re seeing increasing political polarization and social atomization, where we all feel separate and fractured as a culture."

Electra: "People in the comments are confused by the gender thing, or angered, but also simultaneously aroused."

Electra: "I think that that’s my political calling – to look at things critically but also with empathy, even towards something that is hateful and you don’t agree with."