In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

People are buying more vinyl now than they did in the late '90s or 2000s. I like having different mediums of the record. It's always interesting to see how the tapes end up looking because they are so tiny.