Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.

I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.

It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless.

I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into.