You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.

It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.