An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

I think it's cool to give people encouragement.

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.