Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.

Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

The music industry has completely restructured itself in the last couple of years because it hasn't been making money. Labels are signing bands they trust as artistic entities, instead of cash cows. They're signing bands because they believe that the bands have tastes beyond anything they could concoct themselves.

Success will come. Or it won't. But I think you can only make a go at it in a big way by fully being yourself and taking risks. People can feel risks.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.