There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.