There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.