If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.

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.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

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

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