It's exciting for people to define who they are in relation to what I write - whether it be by loving or hating it.

It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we can move out of that just by not resisting anymore. But it takes a really brave warrior soul to sit there in these emotions that admittedly don't feel good in the body.