I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.

The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

To leverage those things that are common to everybody, and to present them in a way that's sort of naked, is more courageous in art than constantly trying to be evasively too cool.

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.