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

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can't really make these perfect minimal musical executions - all the things that would be nice with all these refined poems.

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

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

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

I've been writing a lot about just the aspects of luck and being picked, and how of course it's always how one perceives themselves in the world, as a bit of a scapegoat or a bit of a hero. Everyone generally has about a 60/40 split that volleys, between those two.