I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

I think I kind of approached music with this sort of, like, weird thing where I kinda set myself up where I could kinda be myself but not really. I kinda had a backdoor out. So if you criticized me, I kinda had my defenses working. And the problem is that some people seize on that as inauthenticity, which is understandable. So that's painful because it's not that you're being inauthentic...there's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.

You have to keep adapting to the times. If you kind of go with it, it can kind of fun.

Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.