Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

I've always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

I know what love is because I lost it at an early age.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.