That's something I've always been down with: creative commons and people being able to license their music and allow other people to reuse it and recycle it.

A lot of times people have issues with me because they don't understand where I'm coming from and haven't seen the years and years of hard work and shows I've played.

I sampled a bit of stuff from my dad's collection. He has probably a bigger record collection than I do. I try to buy as much as possible, because I've never been able to keep an MP3 collection organized. I like to keep my computers as clean as possible.

The goal for me is, I build the record that I put out as one individual song. Even though it's broken up into tracks, to me it's like one hour-long piece of music. In assembling the whole thing, I'm really thinking, okay, it's gonna end here, it's gonna start here, and I kind of have the idea of the journey.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

When I'm performing, this is what everything builds up to, and everything has allowed me to be here.

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.