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.

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

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

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

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.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.