If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

All I do is listen to music. It's a weird thing. It's like I have so much catching up to do. I've always been over my head. That's just the way I work best, you know. Like when you're studying for school you think, "I can only study when I have to study the night before." That kind of means you're lazy or you're a procrastinator, but for me with music it's a similar thing. It's like I've been over my head for most of my career so to speak.

If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.