After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

You always want an album to sound like its own little planet.

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.