I'm a product of my environment.

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.

It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

Funnily enough, I feel the most free to be myself when I'm not doing my solo project. Whenever I'm in a situation when it's a side thing or it's something not so infused with my ego. When I'm all over everything, it's a big responsibility and half the time leaves me in some weird nether state of insecurity and doubt.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.