My music should fall under fair use because it's transformative, it's becoming its own entity, and it's not negatively impacting anyone's sales.

I guess people naturally try to find meaning in music.

I've always enjoyed taking pre-existing sound, songs I like, songs I want to share, and manipulating them and trying to do my own version. So just knowing there's that potential for that thing out there that I haven't discovered yet, really gets me motivated every day.

I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

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

I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to go nuts for the year if they're into the style of music.