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

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

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

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 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.

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.

What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this." That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.