Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.

I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love.

I just like to be dangerous with what I try to do.

I just understand that Im supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit.

I wish more artists would do that sort of thing - just focus on one sound on a record instead of "Here's my club banger, here's my metro booming track, and then here's my Americana song." I like albums to feel like a world. That's just me.

Artists are all giving so much of ourselves to the work and the people and the press and the media and Twitter and all that now. For me, being able to create from a genuine place is really difficult lately because there's so much going on all the time, but when all that stuff gets quiet, you can explore your ideas without any ego or mental chatter.