I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.

There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

As I've moved along - not only my life, but my career and things like that - you look at yourself and start going, 'Oh, man, are you still doing what you set out to do? Are the ideals you had still the same?' Sometimes you measure up and sometimes you don't.

People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.